Obstructions to unirationality for product-quotient surfaces over $\overline{\mathbb{F}}_p$
Algebraic Geometry
2025-08-21 v1
Abstract
We construct a surface over with that is supersingular -- in the sense that is spanned by algebraic cycles -- but is not unirational. This provides a counterexample to a 1977 conjecture of Shioda. To achieve this, we produce new obstructions to unirationality for product-quotient surfaces.
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@article{arxiv.2508.14876,
title = {Obstructions to unirationality for product-quotient surfaces over $\overline{\mathbb{F}}_p$},
author = {Benjamin Church},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.14876},
year = {2025}
}
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48 pages -- comments welcome