Abstract:
It is that a three-dimensional variety X that is a conic bundle π:X→S in the Mori sense has a base with at most double rational singularities of type An. A rationality criterion is proved subject to this assumption in the case when the discriminant curve C⊂S is large enough, for example, for the case when pa(C)>18.
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