Fano fourfold literature

an overview of the literature listing Fano fourfolds

Classifications and lists

Sources that produce an actual enumeration of Fano fourfolds. The count column gives the size the paper claims (its kind, families / cases / deformation classes / new examples, beneath). Constructions differ widely (toric, projective bundles, Grassmannian zero loci, quiver flag zero loci, Cox-ring hypersurfaces, Lefschetz-defect classifications, …), so the shared currency for comparison is the numerical invariants listed in the last column.

codereferenceyearcountconstruction
SW90aSzurek, M., & Wiśniewski, J. A. (1990). Fano bundles over P3 and Q₃. Pacific J. Math., 141(1), 197–208.19905projective-bundle
SSW91Sols, I., Szurek, M., & Wiśniewski, J. A. (1991). Rank-2 Fano bundles over a smooth quadric Q₃. Pacific J. Math., 148(1), 153–159.19915projective-bundle
SW90bSzurek, M., & Wiśniewski, J. A. (1990). On Fano manifolds, which are Pk-bundles over P2. Nagoya Math. J., 120, 89–101.199012projective-bundle
Kuc95Küchle, O. (1995). On Fano 4-fold of index 1 and homogeneous vector bundles over Grassmannians. Math. Z., 218(4), 563–575.199521zero-locus-grassmannian
Bat99Batyrev, V. V. (1999). On the classification of toric Fano 4-folds. In J. Math. Sci. (New York) (Vol. 94, pp. 1021–1050).1999123toric
CKP15Coates, T., Kasprzyk, A., & Prince, T. (2015). Four-dimensional Fano toric complete intersections. Proc. A, 471(2175), 20140704, 14.2015738ci-toric
Ben18Benedetti, V. (2018). Manifolds of low dimension with trivial canonical bundle in Grassmannians. Math. Z., 290(1–2), 251–287.2018zero-locus-grassmannian
Kal19Kalashnikov, E. (2019). Four-dimensional Fano quiver flag zero loci. Proc. A, 475(2225), 20180791, 23.2019141quiver-flag-zero-locus
CGKS20Coates, T., Galkin, S., Kasprzyk, A., & Strangeway, A. (2020). Quantum periods for certain four-dimensional Fano manifolds. Exp. Math., 29(2), 183–221.2020mixed
HLM22Hausen, J., Laface, A., & Mauz, C. (2022). On smooth Fano fourfolds of Picard number two. Rev. Mat. Iberoam., 38(1), 53–93.202267cox-ring-hypersurface
CRS22Casagrande, C., Romano, E. A., & Secci, S. A. (2022). Fano manifolds with Lefschetz defect 3. J. Math. Pures Appl. (9), 163, 625–653.202219lefschetz-defect-classification
Sec23Secci, S. A. (2023). Fano fourfolds having a prime divisor of Picard number 1. Adv. Geom., 23(2), 267–280.202328blowup
HS23Höring, A., & Secci, S. A. (2025). Fano fourfolds with large anticanonical base locus. J. Inst. Math. Jussieu, 24(3), 1021–1051.202522anticanonical-base-locus
Pas25Pastorino, F. (2025). On Casagrande-Druel Fano varieties with Lefschetz defect 2.2025147casagrande-druel