Degree 2 del Pezzo surface bundles and stable rationality
Algebraic Geometry
2025-03-03 v1
Abstract
We study the arithmetic of del Pezzo surfaces 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 . Applying this to a fibration in del Pezzo surfaces of degree 2 over a rational surface , we construct examples with nontrivial relative unramified cohomology group . A specialization argument implies the failure of stable rationality of varieties specializing to .
Cite
@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}
}