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HOMOGENEOUS SPACE FIBRATIONS OVER SURFACES

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 April 2017

Yi Zhu*
Affiliation:
Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON N2L3G1, Canada ([email protected])

Abstract

By studying the theory of rational curves, we introduce a notion of rational simple connectedness for projective homogeneous spaces. As an application, we prove that over a function field of an algebraic surface over an algebraically closed field, a variety whose geometric generic fiber is a projective homogeneous space admits a rational point if and only if the elementary obstruction vanishes.

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