Birational automorphisms of algebraic varieties with a pencil of cubic surfaces

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Publication date: 8 November 1996

Abstract: It is proved that on a smooth algebraic variety, fibered into cubic surfaces over the projective line and sufficiently ``twisted over the base, there is only one pencil of rational surfaces -- that is, this very pencil of cubics. In particular, this variety is non-rational; moreover, it can not be fibered into rational curves. The proof is obtained by means of the method of maximal singularities.

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