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A Sarkisov Involution from a Rational Cubic Curve on a Quartic Double Solid

Joseph Cutrone·Nicholas Marshburn
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Building on an earlier classification of smooth weak Fano threefolds of Picard number two with small anticanonical morphism, we prove that Case~28 of the table of E1-E1 links from that classification is geometrically realizable. We construct the link by blowing up a smooth rational cubic curve on a degree-two del Pezzo threefold $V_2$, realized as a quartic double solid. A lattice calculation on an anticanonical K3 surface shows that the anticanonical morphism of the blow-up is small, and the covering involution of the anticanonical double cover realizes the flop. The resulting Sarkisov link is a birational involution with the numerical invariants of E1-E1 Case~28.

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Joseph Cutrone, Nicholas Marshburn. 2026-10-19. A Sarkisov Involution from a Rational Cubic Curve on a Quartic Double Solid. https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.26364

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