Factoriality conjecture for sextic double solids with few mild singularities

Let BP3B\subset\mathbb{P}^3 be a sextic surface with at worst AmA_m singularities, where m10m\leq 10, and let XX be the double solid branched along BB. The singular points of XX correspond to the singularities of the branch surface.

Factoriality conjecture for sextic double solids. If XX has at most four singular points, then XX is factorial.

The conjecture is suggested by examples showing that certain sextic double solids with terminal cA1cA_1 points are factorial, while another example with an A11A_{11} singularity fails to be Q\mathbb{Q}-factorial. It proposes factoriality under both a bound on the singularity type and a bound on the number of singular points.

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Igor Krylov, Takuzo Okada, Erik Paemurru and Jihun Park, “2 n^2-inequality for cA_1 points and applications to birational rigidity”, arXiv:2205.12743 (2024).

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