Rationality problem for hypersurfaces, I

Date/heure
25 février 2019
15:00 - 16:30

Oratrice ou orateur
Stefan Schreieder

Catégorie d'évènement
Séminaire de géométrie complexe


Résumé

I will briefly recall what is known about the rationality problem for smooth projective hypersurfaces. I then aim to explain how to prove the following new result: a very general hypersurface of dimension n>2 and degree at least log_2(n)+2 is not stably rational.