Abstract:
We obtain local inequalities for log canonical thresholds and
multiplicities of movable log pairs. We prove the
non-rationality and birational superrigidity of the following Fano
varieties: a double covering of a smooth cubic hypersurface in
Pn branched over a nodal divisor that is cut out by
a hypersurface of degree 2(n−3)⩾10; a cyclic triple
covering of a smooth quadric hypersurface in P2r+2
branched over a nodal divisor that is cut out by a
hypersurface of degree r⩾3; a double covering of a
smooth complete intersection of two quadric hypersurfaces in
Pn branched over a smooth divisor that is cut out by
a hypersurface of degree n−4⩾6.