Automorphism groups and linearizability of rational Fano conic bundle threefolds
Shuto Abe
TL;DR
This work extends the equivariant intermediate Jacobian torsor obstruction to algebraically closed fields of characteristic zero and uses it to analyze projective linearizability of finite group actions on rational threefolds. It develops the theory of $G$-equivariant principally polarized abelian varieties and Chow group schemes, and constructs the equivariant intermediate Jacobian torsor $\mathrm{IJ}(X)$ to compare $G$-invariant pieces of Chow groups with Picard data of curves. A central contribution is the verification that the obstruction vanishes for projectively linearizable actions, and the use of equivariant Prym schemes to connect Chow groups with Prym varieties, enabling linearizability results for conic-bundle Fano threefolds in Mori–Mukai № 2.18. The automorphism groups of smooth Fano threefolds № 2.18 are analyzed, with a general member shown to have $\mathrm{Aut}(X) \cong \mathbb{Z}/2\mathbb{Z}$ and a bound $|\mathrm{Aut}(X)| \le 336$; as an application, a general such threefold is proved to be $\mathrm{Aut}(X)$-linearizable, while explicit non-linearizable actions are also demonstrated.
Abstract
We generalize the equivariant intermediate Jacobian torsor obstruction over $\mathbb{C}$ to algebraically closed fields of characteristic zero. It is an obstruction to the (projective) linearizability problem of finite group actions on threefolds. In addition, we calculate automorphism groups of general smooth Fano threefolds of No. 2.18. As an application, we prove that a general smooth Fano threefold X of No. 2.18 is linearizable for its automorphism group.
