fano

See also Fano

English

Wikipedia

Noun

fano (plural fanos)

1. A non-singular complete algebraic variety whose anticanonical bundle is ample.

References

• 1999: A. N. Parshin, Igorʹ Rostislavovich Shafarevich, Algebraic geometry V: fano varieties

  Therefore the Mori program established the important role that fano varieties play in the birational classification of algebraic varieties.

• 2007: Alessio Corti, Flips for 3-folds and 4-folds

  Shokurov conjectures that a Shokurov algebra on variety admitting a weak fano contraction is finitely generated.

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Latin

Noun

fānō

1. dative singular of fānum
2. ablative singular of fānum

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Old High German

Etymology

Proto-Germanic *fanô, whence also Old English fana, Old Norse fani

Noun

fano

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Descendants

• German: Fahne