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Irrational Complete Intersections

Lucas Braune
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Abstract

We prove that a complete intersection of $c$ very general hypersurfaces of degree at least two in $N$-dimensional complex projective space is not ruled (and therefore not rational) provided that the sum of the degrees of the hypersurfaces is at least $\tfrac{2}{3} N + c + 1$. To this end we consider a degeneration to positive characteristic, following Kollár. Our argument does not require a resolution of the singularities of the special fiber of the degeneration. It relies on a generalization of Kollár's "algebraic Morse lemma" that controls the dimensions of the second-order Thom-Boardman singularities of general sections of Frobenius pullbacks of vector bundles.

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Lucas Braune. 2019-09-12. Irrational Complete Intersections. https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.05723

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