A very general quartic double fourfold is not stably rational
Algebraic Geometry
2016-05-12 v1 Number Theory
Abstract
We prove that a very general double cover of the projective four-space, ramified in a quartic threefold, is not stably rational.
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@article{arxiv.1605.03220,
title = {A very general quartic double fourfold is not stably rational},
author = {Brendan Hassett and Alena Pirutka and Yuri Tschinkel},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.03220},
year = {2016}
}
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