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Degree 2 del Pezzo surface bundles and stable rationality

Algebraic Geometry 2025-03-03 v1

Abstract

We study the arithmetic of del Pezzo surfaces YY of degree 2 over a function field, and in particular, the cokernel of the homomorphism from the Picard group to the Galois-invariants of the geometric Picard group PicY(PicYˉ)G\operatorname{Pic} Y \rightarrow(\operatorname{Pic} \bar{Y})^{G}. Applying this to a fibration π:XS\pi:X\to S in del Pezzo surfaces of degree 2 over a rational surface SS, we construct examples with nontrivial relative unramified cohomology group Hnr,π2(k(X)/k)H^2_{nr,\pi}(k(X)/k). A specialization argument implies the failure of stable rationality of varieties specializing to XX.

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@article{arxiv.2502.20761,
  title  = {Degree 2 del Pezzo surface bundles and stable rationality},
  author = {Wenhao Li},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.20761},
  year   = {2025}
}
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