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The Unirationality of Quartics over Nonclosed Fields Revisited
N. F. Zak Central Bank of the Russian Federation
Abstract:
Examples of smooth fourth-degree hypersurfaces which are unirational over an algebraically nonclosed field $\Bbbk$ and contain no straight lines defined over $Bbbk$ are given. A method for proving the unirationality of quartics is suggested, which, unlike other methods, does not use linear spaces contained in the quartics.
Keywords:
unirational quartic, quartic over an algebraically nonclosed field, unirational variety, irreducible hypersurface, Plucker embedding, birational projection.
Received: 18.07.2007 Revised: 03.02.2008
Citation:
N. F. Zak, “The Unirationality of Quartics over Nonclosed Fields Revisited”, Mat. Zametki, 84:1 (2008), 40–47; Math. Notes, 84:1 (2008), 38–44
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https://www.mathnet.ru/eng/mzm4030https://doi.org/10.4213/mzm4030 https://www.mathnet.ru/eng/mzm/v84/i1/p40
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