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Generalized L\"uroth problems, hierarchized I: SBNR -- stably birationalized unramified sheaves and lower retract rationality

Algebraic Geometry 2022-10-31 v2 Algebraic Topology Number Theory

Abstract

This is the first of a series of papers, where we investigate hierarchies of generalized {L}\"{u}roth problems on the hierarchy of rationality, starting with the obvious hierarchy between the rationality and the ruledness. Our primary goal here was to construct very general necessary conditions for a smooth, not necessary proper, scheme of finite type over the perfect base field kk to be "retract (i)(-i)-rational". We achieve this goal by constructing "stably birationalized Nisnevich subsheaf" SsbS_{sb} inside any Morel's unramified sheaf S,S, where SsbS_{sb} coincides with SS on proper smooth kk-schemes of finite type. Such a stably birationalized Nisnevich subsheaf SsbS_{sb} sheds a new light on the familiar irrational examples of Artin-Mumford, Saltman, Colliot-Th\'{e}l\`ene-Ojanguren, Bogomolov, Peyre, Colliot-Th\'{e}l\`ene-Voisin, and many other retract irrational classifying space BGBG examples presented as counterexamples to the Noether problem of the complex number base field case for a finite group G.G. In fact, for all of these examples, the game is not over from our hierarchical perspective! A consequence of our construction of SsbS_{sb} is the stably birational invariance of an arbitrary unramified sheaf SS on proper smooth kk-schemes of finite type. This in particular implies that, for any generalized motivic cohomology theory, its naively defined unramified (resp. stably birationalized) gemeralized motivic cohomology theory is stably birational invariant on smooth proper kk-schemes of finite type (resp. smooth kk-schemes of finite type). In the course of constructing Ssb,S_{sb}, we have also shown a general local uniformization theorem of the first kind for arbitrary geometric valuations.

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@article{arxiv.2210.12225,
  title  = {Generalized L\"uroth problems, hierarchized I: SBNR -- stably birationalized unramified sheaves and lower retract rationality},
  author = {Norihiko Minami},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.12225},
  year   = {2022}
}

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Version 2: Minor modifications, including a slight change of the title, corrections of some typos, and an addition of a reference. 71 pages