Fano manifolds of degree ten and EPW sextics
Fano manifolds of degree ten and EPW sextics
O'Grady showed that certain special sextics in ℙ 5 called EPW sextics admit smooth double covers with a holomorphic symplectic structure. We propose another perspective on these symplectic manifolds, by showing that they can be constructed from the Hilbert schemes of conics on Fano fourfolds of degree ten. As applications, …