Smoothness-boundary conjecture for Coble type quartics

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Let Σ∘⊂∣OP9(4)∣\Sigma^\circ\subset |\mathcal O_{\mathbb P^9}(4)| be the locus of Coble type quartics singular exactly along a smooth hyperkähler fourfold in M4(1)\mathcal M_4^{(1)}, and let Σ\Sigma be its closure. Let Σ16\Sigma_{16} and Σ20\Sigma_{20} denote the proposed irreducible boundary divisors, and let Δ16\Delta_{16} and Δ20\Delta_{20} be the proposed SL⁡(10)\operatorname{SL}(10) invariants. Smoothness-boundary conjecture. The complement Σ∖Σ∘\Sigma\smallsetminus \Sigma^\circ is a reducible divisor, more precisely Σ∖Σ∘=Σ16∪Σ20\Sigma\smallsetminus \Sigma^\circ=\Sigma_{16}\cup \Sigma_{20} with both components irreducible. Equivalently, for [f4]∈Σ[f_4]\in \Sigma, the singular locus of Z(f4)Z(f_4) is a smooth hyperkähler fourfold in M4(1)\mathcal M_4^{(1)} if and only if Δ16(f4)≠0\Delta_{16}(f_4)\ne0 and Δ20(f4)≠0\Delta_{20}(f_4)\ne0. These divisors are presented as analogues of the divisor of singular cubic fourfolds, and the conjecture identifies the boundary of the smooth hyperkähler locus.

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Benedetta Piroddi, Ángel David Ríos Ortiz, Andrés Rojas and Jieao Song, “Coble type hypersurfaces and hyperkähler fourfolds”, arXiv:2606.10884 (2026).

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