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Birational rigidity is not an open property

I. A. Cheltsov, M. M. Grinenko

math.AGarXiv:math/0612159

Abstract

We construct an example of the birationally rigid complete intersection of a quadric and a cubic in 5 with an ordinary double point, which under a small deformation gives a non-rigid Fano variety. Thus we show that birational rigidity is not open in moduli.

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