Hypersurfaces that are not stably rational

DOI10.1090/JAMS/840zbMATH Open1376.14017arXiv1502.04040OpenAlexW2120832894MaRDI QIDQ2802074FDOQ2802074

Authors: Burt Totaro 

Publication date: 25 April 2016

Published in: Journal of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We show that a wide class of hypersurfaces in all dimensions are not stably rational. Namely, for all d at least about 2n/3, a very general complex hypersurface of degree d in P^{n+1} is not stably rational. The statement generalizes Colliot-Thelene and Pirutka's theorem that very general quartic 3-folds are not stably rational. The result covers all the degrees in which Kollar proved that a very general hypersurface is non-rational, and a bit more. For example, very general quartic 4-folds are not stably rational, whereas it was not even known whether these varieties are rational.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.04040

Recommendations

• Stably irrational hypersurfaces of small slopes
• Stable rationality in smooth families of threefolds
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3977172
• Stable rationality of quadric and cubic surface bundle fourfolds
• Nonrational Covers of $CP^m\times CP^n$
• Variation of Stable Birational Types of Hypersurfaces
• Prelog Chow groups of self-products of degenerations of cubic threefolds
• Smooth weighted hypersurfaces that are not stably rational
• Progress in irrationality [after C. Voisin, J.-L. Colliot-Thélène, B. Hassett, A. Kresch, A. Pirutka, B. Totaro, Y. Tschinkel et al.]
• Birational rigidity and K-stability of Fano hypersurfaces with ordinary double points

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fano varieties (14J45) Rationality questions in algebraic geometry (14E08) Hypersurfaces and algebraic geometry (14J70)

Cites Work

• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Nonrational Hypersurfaces
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Birationally rigid varieties
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Chow rings, decomposition of the diagonal, and the topology of families
• The intermediate Jacobian of the cubic threefold
• The motive of a classifying space
• Introduction
• Algèbre commutative
• Unirational threefolds with no universal codimension \(2\) cycle
• A very general sextic double solid is not stably rational
• Three-dimensional quartic threefolds: stable non-rationality
• Erratum: ``A very general quartic double fourfold or fivefold is not stably rational
• Unramified elements in cycle modules
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Classes de Chern et classes de cycles en cohomologie de Hodge-Witt logarithmique
• On Shokurov's rational connectedness conjecture
• Nonrational Covers of $CP^m\times CP^n$
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• On a generalization of complete intersections
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Rationality in families of threefolds

Cited In (66)

• Explicit Computations with Cubic Fourfolds, Gushel–Mukai Fourfolds, and their Associated K3 Surfaces
• Rational endomorphisms of Fano hypersurfaces
• Interpretations of spectra
• On unirational quartic hypersurfaces
• Higher index Fano varieties with finitely many birational automorphisms
• Quartic and Quintic Hypersurfaces with Dense Rational Points
• Prelog Chow rings and degenerations
• Weak approximation for Fano complete intersections in positive characteristic
• Equivariant birational types and Burnside volume
• The integral Hodge conjecture for two-dimensional Calabi–Yau categories
• Specialization of birational types
• Degenerations of Gushel-Mukai fourfolds, with a view towards irrationality proofs
• Symmetric locally free resolutions and rationality problems
• Quadric surface bundles over surfaces and stable rationality
• Birational invariants and decomposition of the diagonal
• Torsion orders of Fano hypersurfaces
• Maximally algebraic potentially irrational cubic fourfolds
• FANO HYPERSURFACES WITH ARBITRARILY LARGE DEGREES OF IRRATIONALITY
• On stable rationality of Fano threefolds and del Pezzo fibrations
• Stable rationality and conic bundles
• A very general quartic double fourfold or fivefold is not stably rational
• Cyclic covers that are not stably rational
• Birational geometry of singular Fano hypersurfaces of index two
• On the rationality problem for quadric bundles
• Rationality does not specialise among terminal varieties
• Stable rationality of orbifold Fano 3-fold hypersurfaces
• Non-hyperelliptic Riemann surfaces with real field of moduli but not definable over the reals
• Reduction of Brauer classes on \(K3\) surfaces, rationality and derived equivalence
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Cycles, derived categories, and rationality
• Birational geometry of Fano hypersurfaces of index two
• Measures of irrationality for hypersurfaces of large degree
• Stable rationality in smooth families of threefolds
• Rationality, universal generation and the integral Hodge conjecture
• Effective results in the theory of birational rigidity
• Some new rational Gushel fourfolds
• Torsion orders of complete intersections
• The Lüroth Problem
• On irrationality of hypersurfaces in \(\mathbb {P}^{n+1}\)
• On the cohomology of reciprocity sheaves
• The rationality problem for conic bundles
• Unramified logarithmic Hodge-Witt cohomology and \(\mathbb{P}^1\)-invariance
• Birational geometry of varieties fibred into complete intersections of codimension two
• Variation of stable birational types in positive characteristic
• Rationality does not specialize among terminal fourfolds
• Stable Rationality of Cyclic Covers of Projective Spaces
• On deformations of quintic and septic hypersurfaces
• Stable non-rationality on any body
• Progress in irrationality [after C. Voisin, J.-L. Colliot-Thélène, B. Hassett, A. Kresch, A. Pirutka, B. Totaro, Y. Tschinkel et al.]
• Trisecant flops, their associated \(K3\) surfaces and the rationality of some cubic fourfolds
• Conic bundle fourfolds with nontrivial unramified Brauer group
• Smooth weighted hypersurfaces that are not stably rational
• Linear subspaces of hypersurfaces
• Prelog Chow groups of self-products of degenerations of cubic threefolds
• Stably irrational hypersurfaces of small slopes
• Stable rationality of index one Fano hypersurfaces containing a linear space
• Stably \(\mathbb{A}^1\)-connected varieties and universal \(\mathrm{CH}_{0}\)
• A \((2,3)\)-complete intersection fourfold with no decomposition of the diagonal
• Stable rationality of quadric and cubic surface bundle fourfolds
• Three-dimensional quartic threefolds: stable non-rationality
• Unramified Brauer groups of conic bundle threefolds in characteristic two
• Introduction to work of Hassett-Pirutka-Tschinkel and Schreieder
• On the unirationality of quadric bundles
• Tropical degenerations and stable rationality
• The motivic nearby fiber and degeneration of stable rationality
• Retract rationality and algebraic tori

This page was built for publication: Hypersurfaces that are not stably rational

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q2802074)