On higher-dimensional del Pezzo varieties

Abstract

We study del Pezzo varieties, higher-dimensional analogues of del Pezzo surfaces. In particular, we introduce ADE classification of del Pezzo varieties, show that in type A the dimension of non-conical del Pezzo varieties is bounded by $12-d-r$, where $d$ is the degree and $r$ is the rank of the class group, and classify maximal del Pezzo varieties.

62 pages, LaTeX, final version, to appear in Izvestiya