On stable rationality of some conic bundles and moduli spaces of Prym curves

DOI10.4171/CMH/431MaRDI QIDQ2412932zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Christian Böhning, Hans-Christian Graf von Bothmer

Publication date 6 April 2018

Published in Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.03029

zbMATH Keywords

conic bundlesPrym curvesrationality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Rationality questions in algebraic geometry (14E08) Jacobians, Prym varieties (14H40) (3)-folds (14J30) Rational and unirational varieties (14M20)

Abstract: We prove that a very general hypersurface of bidegree (2, n) in P^2 x P^2 for n bigger than or equal to 2 is not stably rational, using Voisin's method of integral Chow-theoretic decompositions of the diagonal and their preservation under mild degenerations. At the same time, we also analyse possible ways to degenerate Prym curves, and the way how various loci inside the moduli space of stable Prym curves are nested. No deformation theory of stacks or sheaves of Azumaya algebras like in recent work of Hasset-Kresch-Tschinkel is used, rather we employ a more elementary and explicit approach via Koszul complexes, which is enough to treat this special case.

Review text

Summary: We prove that a very general hypersurface of bidegree \((2,n)\) in \(\mathbb{P}^2\times\mathbb{P}^2\) for \(n\) bigger than or equal to 2 is not stably rational, using \textit{C. Voisin}'s [Invent. Math. 201, No. 1, 207--237 (2015; Zbl 1327.14223)] method of integral Chow-theoretic decompositions of the diagonal and their preservation under mild degenerations. At the same time, we also analyse possible ways to degenerate Prym curves, and the way how various loci inside the moduli space of stable Prym curves are nested. No deformation theory of stacks or sheaves of Azumaya algebras like in recent work of Hassett-Kresch-Tschinkel [\textit{B. Hassett} et al., Math. Ann. 365, No. 3--4, 1201--1217 (2016; Zbl 1353.14019); \textit{B. Hassett} and \textit{Y. Tschinkel}, ``On stable rationality of Fano threefolds and del Pezzo fibrations, Preprint, \url{arXiv:1601.07074}] is used, rather we employ a more elementary and explicit approach via Koszul complexes, which is enough to treat this special case.

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