Barth–Nieto quintic


In algebraic geometry, the Barth–Nieto quintic is a quintic 3-fold in 4 dimensional projective space studied by that is the Hessian of the Segre cubic.

Definition

The Barth–Nieto quintic is the closure of the set of points of P5 satisfying the equations

Properties

The Barth–Nieto quintic is not rational, but has a smooth model that is a modular Calabi–Yau manifold with Kodaira dimension zero. Furthermore, it is birationally equivalent to a compactification of the Siegel modular variety A1,3.