Kuznetsov's rationality conjecture for cubic fourfolds

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Let C\mathcal{C} be the moduli space of cubic fourfolds, and let Cd\mathcal{C}_d denote a special divisor, consisting of cubic fourfolds with discriminant dd. A discriminant dd is admissible when it satisfies the numerical conditions appearing in the classification of special cubic fourfolds associated with rationality. Kuznetsov's conjecture. A cubic fourfold [X]∈C[X]\in\mathcal{C} is rational if and only if [X]∈Cd[X]\in\mathcal{C}_d, with dd admissible. This conjecture seeks to characterize rational cubic fourfolds through their membership in admissible special divisors; while many rational examples lie in such divisors, the asserted equivalence remains open in general.

References

Primary source

Elena Sammarco, “A nonspecial divisor in the moduli space of cubic fourfolds via 10-nodal plane sextics”, arXiv:2505.13187 (2025).

Additional references

19 papers in this index state this conjecture (2006–2025). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2403.13463, arXiv:2303.03820, arXiv:2201.03899, arXiv:1909.11033, arXiv:1905.01936, arXiv:1805.05176, arXiv:1710.05753, arXiv:1612.02415, arXiv:1608.05627, arXiv:1605.06568, arXiv:1509.09115, arXiv:1407.7265, and 6 more.

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