Hodge structures of the surface of planes in a cubic 5-fold

Abstract

We study the geometry of the moduli space of planes in a general cubic 5-fold and its deformation. We show that this moduli space is a smooth projective surface whose canonical bundle is ample. We also show that the variation of degree 1 Hodge structures of a particular family of such surfaces is maximal. The main technical input is the hyper-Kahler geometry and an elaborated calculation of the Hodge numbers of such surfaces Keywords: Cubic hypersurfaces, Hyper-Kahler manifolds, Schubert calculus, Variation of Hodge structures