Rationality of the quotient of \(\mathbb P^2\) by finite group of automorphisms over arbitrary field of characteristic zero (Q2440569)

Let \(k\) be a field of characteristic 0, and \(G\) be a finite group of automorphisms of the projective plane \(\mathbb P_{k}^2\) over \(k\), i.e., \(G\subset\text{PGL}_3(k)\). The main purpose of the article under review is to prove that the quotient variety \(\mathbb P_{k}^2/G\) is \(k\)-rational (i.e. purely transcendental over \(k\)). This result is an improvement of Castelnuovo's rationality criterion, which requires that \(k\) is algebraically closed. As a corollary of the main result, the author obtains that if \(G\) is a finite subgroup of the general linear group \(\mathrm{GL}_3(k)\), then the field of invariants \(k(x_1,x_2,x_3)^G\) is \(k\)-rational.