A threefold violating a local-to-global principle for rationality
Algebraic Geometry
2024-10-14 v2 Number Theory
Abstract
In this note we construct an example of a smooth projective threefold that is irrational over but is rational at all places. Our example is a complete intersection of two quadrics in , and we show it has the desired rationality behavior by constructing an explicit element of order in the Tate--Shafarevich group of the Jacobian of an associated genus curve.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2304.09306,
title = {A threefold violating a local-to-global principle for rationality},
author = {Sarah Frei and Lena Ji},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.09306},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
7 pages. v2: the example is now unconditional