Measuring the irrationality of complete intersections

HARVARD-MIT ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY

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September 14, 2021 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Science Center 507
Address: 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
Speaker:

Nathan Chen - Harvard University

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 take on a complementary perspective: Given a smooth projective variety whose nonrationality is known, how far is it from being rational? I will explain recent progress in this direction for complete intersections in projective space.