Stably irrational hypersurfaces of small slopes

Abstract

Let k be an uncountable field of characteristic different from two. We show that a very general hypersurface of dimension N>2 and degree at least ${\log }_{2}N+2$ is not stably rational over the algebraic closure of k.

arXiv comment34 pages; Appendix with explicit equations added. To appear in Journal of the AMS

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