Abstract:
We show that every smooth cubic hypersurface $X$ in $\mathbb P^{n+1}$, $n\ge 2$, is algebraically elliptic in Gromov's sense. This gives the first examples of nonrational projective manifolds elliptic in Gromov's sense. We also deduce that the punctured affine cone over $X$ is elliptic.
Citation:
Sh. I. Kaliman, M. G. Zaidenberg, “Algebraic Gromov's Ellipticity of Cubic Hypersurfaces”, Birational Geometry and Fano Varieties, Collected papers. Dedicated to Yuri Gennadievich Prokhorov on the occasion of his 60th birthday, Trudy Mat. Inst. Steklova, 329, Steklov Math. Inst., Moscow, 2025, 90–99; Proc. Steklov Inst. Math., 329 (2025), 79–87