Ruled variety

Arithmetic and geometric deformations of threefolds

We show that mixed-characteristic and equicharacteristic small deformations of 3-dimensional canonical (resp., terminal) singularities with perfect residue field of characteristic p>5 are canonical (resp., terminal). We discuss applications to arithmetic a ...

Wiley2023

On rationally connected varieties over C1 fields of characteristic 0

Marta Pieropan

We use birational geometry to show that the existence of rational points on proper rationally connected varieties over fields of characteristic 0 is a consequence of the existence of rational points on terminal Fano varieties. We discuss several consequenc ...

MATHEMATICAL SCIENCE PUBL2022

Ordinary varieties with trivial canonical bundle are not uniruled

Zsolt Patakfalvi, Maciej Emilian Zdanowicz

We prove that smooth, projective, K-trivial, weakly ordinary varieties over a perfect field of characteristic p>0 are not geometrically uniruled. We also show a singular version of our theorem, which is sharp in multiple aspects. Our work, together with La ...

2021

Birational characterization of abelian varieties and ordinary abelian varieties in characteristic p>0

Lei Zhang, Zsolt Patakfalvi

Let k be an algebraically closed field of characteristic p > 0. We give a birational characterization of ordinary abelian varieties over k: a smooth projective variety X is birational to an ordinary abelian variety if and only if kappa(S)(X) = 0 and b(1)(X ...

DUKE UNIV PRESS2019