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Rationality does not specialise among terminal varieties

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 February 2016

BURT TOTARO*
Affiliation:
UCLA Mathematics Department, Box 951555, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1555U.S.A. e-mail: totaro@math.ucla.edu

Abstract

A limit of rational varieties need not be rational, even when all varieties in the family are projective and have at most terminal singularities.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 2016 

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