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Bert Van Geemen

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arXiv2025

The two extremal rays of some Hyper-Kähler fourfolds

We consider projective Hyper-Kähler manifolds of dimension four that are deformation equivalent to Hilbert squares of K3 surfaces. In case such a manifold admits a divisorial contraction, the exceptional divisor is a conic bundle over a K3 surface. A classification of lattice embeddings implies that there are five types of such conic bundles. In case the manifold has Picard rank two and has two (birational) divisorial contractions we determine the types of these conic bundles. There are exactly seven cases. For the Fano varieties of cubic fourfolds there are only four cases and we provide examples of these.

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arXiv2011

A new CY elliptic fibration and tadpole cancellation

Tadpole cancellation in Sen limits in F-theory was recently studied by Aluffi and Esole. We extend their results, generalizing the elliptic fibrations they used and obtaining a new case of universal tadpole cancellation, at least numerically. We could not find an actual Sen limit having the correct brane content, and we argue that such a limit may not exist. We also give a uniform description of the fibration used by Aluffi and Esole as well as a new, simple, fibration which has non-Kodaira type fibers.

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