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Potentially Stably Rational Del Pezzo Surfaces over Nonclosed Fields

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A geometrically rational surface S over a nonclosed field k is k-birational to either a del Pezzo surface of degree \(n\in [1,\ldots , 9]\) or a conic bundle (see [6]). Throughout, we assume that \(S(k)\ne \emptyset \). This implies k-rationality of S when \(n\in [5,\ldots , 9]\) or when the number of degenerate fibers of the conic bundle is at most 3.

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We are grateful to J.-L. Colliot-Thélène for helpful comments and suggestions. The first author was partially supported by NSF grant 1601912.

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Tschinkel, Y., Yang, K. (2020). Potentially Stably Rational Del Pezzo Surfaces over Nonclosed Fields. In: Nathanson, M. (eds) Combinatorial and Additive Number Theory III. CANT 2018. Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, vol 297. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31106-3_17

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