Kuznetsov's rationality conjecture for cubic fourfolds

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.

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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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