Seminar Algebra and Geometry: Hans-Christian Graf v. Bothmer (Hamburg)

Non-rationality of conic-bundles over IP^3

I will review some of the history and recent developments of the rationality question for conic bundles over projective spaces. I will then explain our contribution to this question in the case of conic bundles over IP^3 (joint work with Asher Auel, Christian Boehning and Alena Pirutka).

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