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A categorical invariant for geometrically rational surfaces with a conic bundle structure

Algebraic Geometry 2019-09-30 v1

Abstract

We define a categorical birational invariant for minimal geometrically rational surfaces with a conic bundle structure over a perfect field via components of a natural semiorthogonal decomposition. Together with the similar known result on del Pezzo surfaces, this provides a categorical birational invariant for geometrically rational surfaces.

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@article{arxiv.1909.12647,
  title  = {A categorical invariant for geometrically rational surfaces with a conic bundle structure},
  author = {Marcello Bernardara and Sara Durighetto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.12647},
  year   = {2019}
}

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