{
  "id": "1411.3122",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2014-11-12T10:27:29.000Z",
  "updated": "2014-11-12T10:27:29.000Z",
  "title": "A very general quartic double fourfold or fivefold is not stably rational",
  "authors": [
    "Arnaud Beauville"
  ],
  "categories": [
    "math.AG"
  ],
  "abstract": "Applying an idea of C. Voisin, we prove that a double cover of P^4 or P^5 branched along a very general quartic hypersurface is not stably rational.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2014-11-12T10:27:29.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "general quartic double fourfold",
      "stably rational",
      "general quartic hypersurface",
      "double cover"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 0,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2014arXiv1411.3122B"
    }
  }
}