Birationally rigid complete intersections of high codimension

TL;DR

This paper establishes the birational superrigidity of certain high-codimension Fano complete intersections with mild singularities, using advanced geometric techniques and inequalities.

Contribution

It proves birational superrigidity for a broad class of high-codimension Fano complete intersections with specific singularity constraints.

Findings

Birational superrigidity holds for codimension ≥20 and M ≥ 8k log k.

The set of non-superrigid cases has codimension at least (1/2)(M-5k)(M-6k).

The proof employs hypertangent divisors and the 4n^2-inequality.

Abstract

We prove that a Fano complete intersection of codimension $k$ and index 1 in the complex projective space ${\mathbb P}^{M+k}$ for $k\geqslant 20$ and $M\geqslant 8k\log k$ with at most multi-quadratic singularities is birationally superrigid. The codimension of the complement to the set of birationally superrigid complete intersections in the natural parameter space is shown to be at least $\frac12 (M-5k)(M-6k)$. The proof is based on the techniques of hypertangent divisors combined with the recently discovered $4n^2$-inequality for complete intersection singularities.