Non-rationality of the symmetric sextic Fano threefold
Arnaud Beauville
Université de Nice, France
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Abstract
We prove that the symmetric sextic Fano threefold, defined by the equations in , is not rational. In view of the work of Prokhorov [P], our result implies that the alternating group admits only one embedding into the Cremona group up to conjugacy.