The rationality problem for forms of M¯0,n

DOI10.1112/BLMS.12126MaRDI QIDQ4604603zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Mathieu Florence, Zinovy Reichstein

Publication date 2 March 2018

Published in Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.05698

zbMATH Keywords

Brauer groupGalois cohomologymoduli spaces of marked curvesrationalitytwisted forms

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Rationality questions in algebraic geometry (14E08) Families, moduli of curves (algebraic) (14H10) Rational and unirational varieties (14M20) Brauer groups (algebraic aspects) (16K50) Linear algebraic groups over arbitrary fields (20G15)

Abstract: Let $X$ be a del Pezzo surface of degree $5$ defined over a field $F$. A theorem of Yu. I. Manin and P. Swinnerton-Dyer asserts that every Del Pezzo surface of degree $5$ is rational. In this paper we generalize this result as follows. Recall that del Pezzo surfaces of degree $5$ over a field $F$ are precisely the twisted $F$-forms of the moduli space $overline{M}_{0,5}$ of stable curves of genus $0$ with $5$ marked points. Suppose $ngeq5$ is an integer, and $F$ is an infinite field of characteristic $eq2$. It is easy to see that every twisted $F$-form of $overline{M}_{0,n}$ is unirational over $F$. We show that (a) if $n$ is odd, then every twisted $F$-form of $overline{M}_{0,n}$ is rational over $F$. (b) If $n$ is even, there exists a field extension $F/k$ and a twisted $F$-form $X$ of $overline{M}_{0,n}$ such that $X$ is not retract rational over $F$.

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