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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 Q\mathbb Q but is rational at all places. Our example is a complete intersection of two quadrics in P5\mathbb P^5, and we show it has the desired rationality behavior by constructing an explicit element of order 44 in the Tate--Shafarevich group of the Jacobian of an associated genus 22 curve.

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@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

R2 v1 2026-06-28T10:10:22.676Z