Fano variety

Concept in algebraic geometry

In algebraic geometry, a Fano variety, introduced by Gino Fano in, is an algebraic variety that generalizes certain aspects of complete intersections of algebraic hypersurfaces whose sum of degrees is at most the total dimension of the ambient projective space. Such complete intersections have important applications in geometry and number theory, because they typically admit rational points, an elementary case of which is the Chevalley–Warning theorem. Fano varieties provide an abstract generalization of these basic examples for which rationality questions are often still tractable.

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