OpenAI reports irrational cubic fourfolds with geometric K3 categories

For every sufficiently large admissible Hassett discriminant, a very general smooth cubic fourfold in that divisor is irrational although its Kuznetsov component is equivalent to the ordinary derived category of a projective K3 surface.

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For every sufficiently large admissible Hassett discriminant, a very general smooth cubic fourfold in that divisor is irrational although its Kuznetsov component is equivalent to the ordinary derived category of a projective K3 surface.

Why it matters

If correct, disproves the sufficiency direction of Kuznetsov’s rationality conjecture across all sufficiently large admissible discriminants.

What counts as progress

Can a cubic fourfold have a geometric K3 Kuznetsov component and still be irrational?

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