Quartic threefold

In algebraic geometry, a quartic threefold is a degree 4 hypersurface of dimension 3 in 4-dimensional projective space. Iskovskih & Manin (1971) showed that all non-singular quartic threefolds are irrational, though some of them are unirational.

Examples

• Burkhardt quartic
• Igusa quartic

References

• Iskovskih, V. A.; Manin, Ju. I. (1971), "Three-dimensional quartics and counterexamples to the Lüroth problem", Matematicheskii Sbornik, Novaya Seriya, 86 (1): 140–166, Bibcode:1971SbMat..15..141I, doi:10.1070/SM1971v015n01ABEH001536, MR 0291172