Tropical obstructions to stable rationality
Johannes NICAISE
KU Leuven and Imperial College London
https://perswww.kuleuven.be/~u0025871/
Date(s) : 18/11/2021 iCal
14h00 - 15h00
It is an old and thorny problem in algebraic geometry to determine which projective hypersurfaces are rational, or, more generally, stably rational, meaning that they become rational when we take the product with a projective space of sufficiently large dimension. After summarizing the principal known results, I will explain how one can use degeneration techniques and tropical methods to find new classes of non-stably rational hypersurfaces and complete intersections. This talk is based on joint work with John Christian Ottem.
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