Clemens's single-vanishing-cycle tube mapping conjecture

Let XPNX\subseteq \mathbb P^N be a smooth projective variety of dimension nn, let Y=XHY=X\cap H be a smooth hyperplane section, let U(PN)U\subseteq (\mathbb P^N)^* be the open set of smooth hyperplanes, and fix a base point tUt\in U. Let α0Hn1(Y,Z)van\alpha_0\in H_{n-1}(Y,\mathbb Z)_{\textup{van}} be a primitive vanishing cycle. Clemens's conjecture. The map

{([l],α0)[l]π1(U,t), lα0=α0}Hn(X,Z)prim\{([l],\alpha_0)\mid [l]\in \pi_1(U,t),\ l_*\alpha_0=\alpha_0\}\to H_n(X,\mathbb Z)_{\textup{prim}}

has a cofinite image. The conjecture restricts Schnell's tube mapping theorem to tubes over a single primitive vanishing cycle; the paper states that it proves the conjecture for cubic threefolds using Abel–Jacobi maps.

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Primary source

Yilong Zhang, “Extension of the Topological Abel-Jacobi Map for Cubic Threefolds”, arXiv:2308.15751 (2024).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2020–2023). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2010.11622.

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