Tori and surfaces violating a local-to-global principle for rationality

Publication date 5 May 2023

Varieties over global fields (11G35) Rationality questions in algebraic geometry (14E08) Global ground fields in algebraic geometry (14G25) Rational and ruled surfaces (14J26) Rational and unirational varieties (14M20) Linear algebraic groups over global fields and their integers (20G30) Arithmetic ground fields for surfaces or higher-dimensional varieties (14J20) Hasse principle, weak and strong approximation, Brauer-Manin obstruction (14G12)

Abstract: We show that even within a class of varieties where the Brauer obstruction is the only obstruction to the local-to-global principle for the existence of rational points (Hasse principle), this obstruction, even in a stronger, base change invariant form, may be insufficient for explaining counter-examples to the local-to-global principle for rationality. We exhibit examples of toric varieties and rational surfaces over an arbitrary global field k each of those, in the absence of the Brauer obstruction, is rational over all completions of k but is not k-rational.

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