Algebraic Geometry seminar in Harvard

May 2019, Boston

Title: Birational rigidity of low degree del Pezzo fibrations

Abstract:
A Mori fiber space is called birationally rigid if, roughly speaking, it has only one Mori fiber space structure. I will talk about birational rigidity of singular del Pezzo fibrations. I will explain the essence of the method of proving birational rigidity: Noether-Fano method, also known as method of maximal singularities. I will discuss the differences in applying this to Fano varieties and Mori fiber spaces with a positive dimensional base.