Fanography

A tool to visually study the geography of Fano 3-folds.

del Pezzo threefolds

On this page we list del Pezzo varieties, which can exist in arbitrary dimension, specialised to dimension 3.

We say that a pair $(X,H)$ of a smooth projective variety $X$ and an ample divisor $H$ is a del Pezzo variety if $-\mathrm{K}_X=(\dim X-1)H$. So for Fano 3-folds these have (co)index 2 and $H$ is the generator of the Picard group, or $X=\mathbb{P}^3$ and $H$ is twice the generator of the Picard group.

Closely related are del Pezzo surfaces, which have have their own page.

Fano 3-fold$H^{\dim X}$$\rho$dimensiondescription in dimension 3description
1-1111anydouble Veronese cone

hypersurface of degree 6 in $\mathbb{P}(1,1,1,2,3)$

hypersurface of degree 6 in $\mathbb{P}(1,\ldots,1,2,3)$
1-1221anyquartic double solid

double cover of $\mathbb{P}^3$ with branch locus a smooth quartic surface

alternative
hypersurface of degree 4 in $\mathbb{P}(1,1,1,1,2)$
double cover of $\mathbb{P}^n$ with branch locus a smooth quartic hypersurface
1-1331any

hypersurface of degree 3 in $\mathbb{P}^4$

cubic hypersurface
1-1441any

complete intersection of 2 quadrics in $\mathbb{P}^5$

complete intersection of two quadrics
1-1551$\leq 6$quintic del Pezzo threefold

section of Plücker embedding of $\mathrm{Gr}(2,5)$ by codimension 3 subspace

linear section of Plücker embedding of $\mathrm{Gr}(2,5)$
3-2763$3$

$\mathbb{P}^1\times\mathbb{P}^1\times\mathbb{P}^1$

2-3262$\leq 4$

divisor on $\mathbb{P}^2\times\mathbb{P}^2$ of bidegree $(1,1)$

alternative
$\mathbb{P}(\mathrm{T}_{\mathbb{P}^2})$
the complete flag variety for $\mathbb{P}^2$
linear section of Segre embedding of $\mathbb{P}^2\times\mathbb{P}^2$
2-3572$3$

$\mathrm{Bl}_p\mathbb{P}^3$

alternative
$\mathbb{P}(\mathcal{O}_{\mathbb{P}^2}\oplus\mathcal{O}_{\mathbb{P}^2}(1))$