Equivalent Birational Embeddings III: cones

Two divisors in $\mathbb P^n$ are said to be Cremona equivalent if there is a Cremona modification sending one to the other. In this paper I study irreducible cones in $\mathbb P^n$ and prove that two cones are Cremona equivalent if their general hyperplane sections are birational. In particular I produce examples of cones in $\mathbb P^3$ Cremona equivalent to a plane whose plane section is not Cremona equivalent to a line in $\mathbb P^2$

Equivalent birational embeddings

Let $X$ be a projective variety of dimension $r$ over an algebraically closed field. It is proven that two birational embeddings of $X$ in $\P^n$, with $n\geq r+2$ are equivalent up to Cremona transformations of $\P^n$

Birational geometry of rational quartic surfaces

Two birational subvarieties of P^n are called Cremona equivalent if there is a Cremona modification of P^n mapping one to the other. If the codimension of the varieties is at least 2 then they are always Cremona Equivalent. For divisors the question is much more subtle and a general answer is unknown. In this paper I study the case of rational quartic surfaces and prove that they are all Cremona equivalent to a plane.Comment: Improved exposition after referee comments, 10 page