Fumiaki Suzuki : Universal CH_0 triviality and the decomposition of the diagonal

Posted by Fumiaki Suzuki , part of the Graduate Algebraic Geometry Seminar.

At

Nov. 16, 2016, 3 p.m.

In

SEO 712

Abstract

I'll discuss the paper by Colliot-thelene and Pirtuka on non-stable rationality of quartic 3-folds. I'll introduce the notion of universal CH_0 triviality and the decomposition of the diagonal, and explain how they play a key role in their proof.