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Rationality problem for transitive subgroups of S_8

Algebraic Geometry 2014-02-10 v1

Abstract

For any field K and any transitive subgroup G of S_8, let G acts naturally on K(x_1, . . ., x_8) by permutations of the variables, we prove that under some minor conditions K(x_1, . . ., x_8)^G is always K-rational except G is A_8 or G is isomorphic to PGL(2, 7). We pay special attentions on the characteristic 2 cases.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1402.1675,
  title  = {Rationality problem for transitive subgroups of S_8},
  author = {Baoshan Wang and Jian Zhou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1402.1675},
  year   = {2014}
}

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29 pages

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