Minimal anticanonical-volume terminal Fano conjecture

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Let s0=2s_0=2 and sm=sm1(sm11)+1s_m=s_{m-1}(s_{m-1}-1)+1 for m1m\geq 1 be Sylvester's sequence. For each integer n2n\geq 2, set

d=(2sn13)(sn11).d=(2s_{n-1}-3)(s_{n-1}-1).

A general hypersurface XX of degree dd in

Pn+1(d/s0,,d/sn2,sn11,sn12,1)\mathbb{P}^{n+1}(d/s_0,\ldots,d/s_{n-2},s_{n-1}-1,s_{n-1}-2,1)

is a terminal Fano nn-fold. Minimal anticanonical-volume terminal Fano conjecture. This XX has minimal anticanonical volume among terminal Fano nn-folds. The claim is supported by the minimality results cited for dimensions 22, 33, and 44, while the general statement remains open.

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Primary source

Louis Esser, Burt Totaro and Chengxi Wang, “Varieties of general type with doubly exponential asymptotics”, arXiv:2109.13383 (2022).

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