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The Lüroth Problem

verfasst von : Arnaud Beauville

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Abstract

The Lüroth problem asks whether every unirational variety is rational. After a historical survey, we describe the methods developed in the 1970s to get a negative answer, and give some easy examples. Then we discuss a new method introduced last year by C. Voisin.

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Fano proved in [F3] that the variety X 14 is birational to a smooth cubic threefold.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
The Lüroth Problem
verfasst von
Arnaud Beauville
Copyright-Jahr
2016
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46209-7_1