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On one stable birational invariant

Algebraic Geometry 2013-09-17 v4

Abstract

This is an expository article, which contributes to the Proceedings of the conference "Groups of Automorphisms in Birational and Affine Geometry", held in Trento in 2012. We propose that (rational) fibrations on the projective space \pn\p^n by (birationally) Abelian hypersurfaces, for an arbitrary n2n\ge 2, provide an obstruction to stable rationality of algebraic varieties. We discuss the evidence for this proposition and derive some (almost straightforward) corollaries from it.

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@article{arxiv.1307.5605,
  title  = {On one stable birational invariant},
  author = {Ilya Karzhemanov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1307.5605},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

Proof of Lemma 2.2 fixed

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