Some geometry of cubic hypersurfaces

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• Mingmin Shen (Cambridge)
• Wednesday 25 April 2012, 14:15-15:15
• MR 13, CMS.

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We will show how lines on a cubic hypersurface and their incidence give a description of the Hodge structure and Chow groups. In the case of cubic fourfolds, we explain how this might be used to study the rationality problem.

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