Prime Fano fourfolds in classical and generalized Grassmannians

Abstract: We provide a complete classification of Fano fourfolds of Picard rank 1 and index 1 obtained as zero loci of completely reducible homogeneous vector bundles in generalized Grassmannians, i.e. Grassmannians of Dynkin type different from A. This extends the classification done by Küchle in standard Grassmannians. In doing so, we exhibit three new families of Fano fourfolds of Picard rank 1 and index 1. For each of the studied Fano fourfolds, we compute several numerical invariants, such as volume and Hodge numbers.