An overview of measures of irrationality
Nathan Chen (Columbia University)
Mon Mar 11, 22:45-23:45 (2 months ago)
Abstract: The classical question of determining which varieties are rational has led to a huge amount of interest and activity. On the other hand, one can consider a complementary perspective - given a smooth projective variety whose nonrationality is known, how "irrational" is it? I will survey what is currently known, with an emphasis on surfaces and open problems.
algebraic geometry
Audience: researchers in the topic
Stanford algebraic geometry seminar
Series comments: The seminar was online for a significant period of time, but for now is solely in person. More seminar information (including slides and videos, when available): agstanford.com
Organizer: | Ravi Vakil* |
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