The diagonal of quartic fivefolds

DOI10.14231/AG-2023-027MaRDI QIDQ6083628zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Nebojsa Pavic, Stefan Schreieder

Publication date 8 December 2023

Published in Algebraic Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.04539

zbMATH Keywords

algebraic cycleshypersurfacesquarticsrationalityretract rationality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Algebraic cycles (14C25) Rationality questions in algebraic geometry (14E08) Hypersurfaces and algebraic geometry (14J70) Rational and unirational varieties (14M20)

Abstract: We show that a very general quartic hypersurface in $mathbb{P}^6$ over a field of characteristic different from 2 does not admit a decomposition of the diagonal, hence is not retract rational. This generalizes a result of Nicaise--Ottem, who showed stable irrationality over fields of characteristic 0. To prove our result, we introduce a new cycle-theoretic obstruction that may be seen as an analogue of the motivic obstruction for rationality in characteristic zero, introduced by Nicaise--Shinder and Kontsevich--Tschinkel.

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