The Hilbert curve of a complex polarized manifold [Formula: see text] is the complex affine plane curve of degree [Formula: see text] defined by the Hilbert-like polynomial [Formula: see text], where [Formula: see text] is the canonical bundle of [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] are regarded as complex variables. A natural expectation is that this curve encodes several properties of the pair [Formula: see text]. In particular, the existence of a fibration of [Formula: see text] over a variety of smaller dimension induced by a suitable adjoint bundle to [Formula: see text] translates into the fact that the Hilbert curve has a quite special shape. Along this line, Hilbert curves of special varieties like Fano manifolds with low coindex, as well as fibrations over low-dimensional varieties having such a manifold as general fiber, endowed with appropriate polarizations, are investigated. In particular, several polarized manifolds relevant for adjunction theory are completely characterized in terms of their Hilbert curves.
Fano manifolds obtained by blowing up along curves with maximal Picard number
