Flips for spaces of quadrics on del Pezzo varieties

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Authors: Saket Shah
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Abstract

For a cubic hypersurface $X$, work of Galkin--Shinder and Voisin shows the existence of a birational map relating the Hilbert scheme of two points $X^{[2]}$ with a certain projective bundle over $X$. Belmans--Fu--Raedschelders show that this is a standard flip, a particularly nice type of birational map inducing decompositions of derived categories. We show that this geometric construction extends to produce standard flips for Hilbert schemes of quadrics on various higher-dimensional del Pezzo varieties of degree at least 3, including cubics, intersections of two quadrics, and linear sections of $\mathrm{Gr}(2, 5)$. The resulting construction also generalizes results of Chung--Hong--Lee for quintic del Pezzo varieties. As an application, we produce a conjectural semiorthogonal decompositions for orthogonal Grassmannians of lines.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Algebraic Geometry and Number Theory Algebraic structures and combinatorial models Geometry and complex manifolds

Publication details

Journal / source
arXiv (Cornell University)
Publication date
7 February 2026
Language
EN
Document type
Preprint