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The Clemens-Griffiths method over non-closed fields

Algebraic Geometry 2020-11-19 v2

Abstract

We use the Clemens-Griffiths method to construct smooth projective threefolds, over any field kk admitting a separable quadratic extension, that are kk-unirational and kˉ\bar{k}-rational but not kk-rational. When k=Rk=\mathbb{R}, we can moreover ensure that their real locus is diffeomorphic to the real locus of a smooth projective R\mathbb{R}-rational variety and that all their unramified cohomology groups are trivial.

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@article{arxiv.1903.08015,
  title  = {The Clemens-Griffiths method over non-closed fields},
  author = {Olivier Benoist and Olivier Wittenberg},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.08015},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

26 pages; minor revision

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