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Specialization of birational types

Algebraic Geometry 2017-08-21 v1

Abstract

We introduce a simplified version of the Grothendieck group of algebraic varieties and use it to show that birational types specialize in families with mild singularities of the central fiber.

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@article{arxiv.1708.05699,
  title  = {Specialization of birational types},
  author = {Maxim Kontsevich and Yuri Tschinkel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.05699},
  year   = {2017}
}

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17 pages

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