{
  "id": "1605.03220",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2016-05-10T21:40:52.000Z",
  "updated": "2016-05-10T21:40:52.000Z",
  "title": "A very general quartic double fourfold is not stably rational",
  "authors": [
    "Brendan Hassett",
    "Alena Pirutka",
    "Yuri Tschinkel"
  ],
  "comment": "16 pages",
  "categories": [
    "math.AG",
    "math.NT"
  ],
  "abstract": "We prove that a very general double cover of the projective four-space, ramified in a quartic threefold, is not stably rational.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2016-05-10T21:40:52.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "general quartic double fourfold",
      "stably rational",
      "general double cover",
      "quartic threefold"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 16,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}