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Stable rationality and conic bundles

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We study stable rationality properties of conic bundles over rational surfaces.

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Acknowledgments

The first author was supported by NSF Grants 1148609 and 1401764. The second author was supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation. The third author was supported by NSF Grant 1160859. We are grateful to I. Cheltsov, J.-L. Colliot-Thélène, L. Katzarkov, A. Pirutka, and B. Totaro for comments and suggestions.

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    Present address: Department of Mathematics, Brown University, 151 Thayer Street, Box 1917, Providence, RI, 02912, USA

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  1. Department of Mathematics, Rice University, MS 136, Houston, TX, 77005, USA

    Brendan Hassett

  2. Institut für Mathematik, Universität Zürich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057, Zurich, Switzerland

    Andrew Kresch

  3. Courant Institute, 251 Mercer Street, New York, NY, 10012, USA

    Yuri Tschinkel

  4. Simons Foundation, 160 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, 10010, USA

    Yuri Tschinkel

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Hassett, B., Kresch, A. & Tschinkel, Y. Stable rationality and conic bundles. Math. Ann. 365, 1201–1217 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00208-015-1292-y

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