Chennai Mathematical Institute

Seminars




2:00 pm, Seminar Hall
Algebraic cycles and the rationality problem

Kalyan Banerjee
HRI.
16-01-19


Abstract

Detecting rationality of an algebraic variety is a very interesting and classical question in algebraic geometry. In this talk we are going to reformulate the rationality problem for a cubic fourfold in the projective space of dimension 5 by algebraic cycle theoretic methods.