Fano fourfold literature

an overview of the literature listing Fano fourfolds

Extremal contractions

Structural results on extremal and elementary contractions of (Fano) fourfolds. These are not enumerations (they constrain or describe the possible contractions rather than listing varieties), so the count column is omitted. They are the tools behind many of the identifications between entries in the classification lists.

codereferenceyearconstruction
Kaw89Kawamata, Y. (1989). Small contractions of four-dimensional algebraic manifolds. Math. Ann., 284(4), 595–600.1989contraction-theory
AW96Andreatta, M., & Wiśniewski, J. A. (1998). On contractions of smooth varieties. J. Algebraic Geom., 7(2), 253–312.1998contraction-theory
Tak99Takagi, H. (1999). Classification of extremal contractions from smooth fourfolds of (3,1)-type. Proc. Amer. Math. Soc., 127(2), 315–321.1999contraction-theory
BCW02Bonavero, L., Campana, F., & Wiśniewski, J. A. (2002). Variétés complexes dont l’éclatée en un point est de Fano. C. R. Math. Acad. Sci. Paris, 334(6), 463–468.2002contraction-theory
Tsu10aTsukioka, T. (2010). A remark on Fano 4-folds having (3,1)-type extremal contractions. Math. Ann., 348(3), 737–747.2010contraction-theory
Tsu10bTsukioka, T. (2010). Fano manifolds obtained by blowing up along curves with maximal Picard number. Manuscripta Math., 132(1–2), 247–255.2010contraction-theory
Fuj14Fujita, K. (2014). On a generalization of the Mukai conjecture for Fano fourfolds. Tokyo J. Math., 37(2), 319–333.2014contraction-theory
Ou17Ou, W. (2018). Fano varieties with Nef(X)=Psef(X) and ρ(X)=\dim X-1. Manuscripta Math., 157(3–4), 551–587.2018contraction-theory