Koll\'ar's Nonrational Hypersurfaces

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Department of Mathematics,
University of California San Diego

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Old News in Algebraic Geometry

David Stapleton

UCSD

Abstract:

We will discuss a 1995 paper of Koll\'ar, which showed via degeneration to characteristic 2 the nonrationality of many low degree hypersurfaces in projective space.

January 22, 2018

1:00 PM

AP&M 7321