Characterizing terminal Fano threefolds with the smallest anti-canonical volume, II

Abstract

It was proved by J.~A.~Chen and M.~Chen that a terminal Fano $3$-fold $X$ satisfies $(-K_X{)}^3\ge \frac{1}{330}$. We show that a $\mathbb{Q}$-factorial terminal Fano $3$-fold $X$ with $\rho (X)=1$ and $(-K_X{)}^3=\frac{1}{330}$ is a weighted hypersurface of degree $66$ in $\mathbb{P}(1,5,6,22,33)$. By the same method, we also give characterizations for other $11$ examples of weighted hypersurfaces of the form $X_{6d}\subset \mathbb{P}(1,a,b,2d,3d)$ in Iano-Fletcher's list. Namely, we show that if a $\mathbb{Q}$-factorial terminal Fano $3$-fold $X$ with $\rho (X)=1$ has the same numerical data as $X_{6d}$, then $X$ itself is a weighted hypersurface of the same type.

arXiv comment11 pages, submitting to the special volume in honor of Professor Shokurov's seventieth birthday