On the rationality problem for hypersurfaces

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  • Jan Lange
  • Stefan Schreieder

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Publication statusE-pub ahead of print - 19 Sept 2024

Abstract

We show that a very general hypersurface of degree d at least 4 and dimension at most $(d+1)2^{d-4}$ over a field of characteristic different from 2 does not admit a decomposition of the diagonal; hence, it is neither stably nor retract rational, nor $\mathbb{A}^1$-connected. Similar results hold in characteristic 2 under a slightly weaker degree bound. This improves earlier results by the second named author and Moe.

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    math.AG, math.NT, 14J70, 14E08, 14M20, 14C25

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On the rationality problem for hypersurfaces. / Lange, Jan; Schreieder, Stefan.
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