Extremal Contraction of Projective Bundles

Abstract

In this article, we explore the extremal contractions of several projective bundles over smooth Fano varieties of Picard rank $1$. We provide a whole class of examples of projective bundles with smooth blow-up structures, derived from the notion of drums which was introduced by Occhetta-Romano-Conde-Wiśniewski to study interaction with ${\mathbb{C}}^{\ast }$-actions and birational geometry. By manipulating projective bundles, we give a simple geometric construction of the rooftop flip, which was introduced recently by Barban-Franceschini. Additionally, we obtain analogues of some recent results of Vats in higher dimensions. The list of projective bundles we consider includes all globally generated bundles over projective space with first Chern class $2$. For each of them, we compute the nef and pseudoeffective cones.

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