Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Tokyo, Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-0041, Japan
Abstract:
We investigate divisorial contractions of extremal rays from smooth fourfolds. When the exceptional divisor is contracted to a curve, we prove that the divisor is a -bundle or quadric bundle over a smooth curve and the contraction is the blowing up along the curve. Furthermore we determine the local analytic structure of the contraction.