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Author(s): Tom Graber; Joe Harris; Jason Starr
Journal: J. Amer. Math. Soc. 16 (2003), 57-67.
MSC (2000): Primary 14M20, 14D05
Posted: July 29, 2002
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Abstract: We prove that every one-parameter family of complex rationally connected varieties has a section.

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Tom Graber
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Harvard University, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
Email: graber@math.harvard.edu

Joe Harris
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Harvard University, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
Email: harris@math.harvard.edu

Jason Starr
Affiliation: Department of Mathmatics, Massachusetts Institute of technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
Email: jstarr@math.mit.edu

DOI: 10.1090/S0894-0347-02-00402-2
PII: S 0894-0347(02)00402-2
Received by editor(s): September 6, 2001
Received by editor(s) in revised form: May 3, 2002
Posted: July 29, 2002
Additional Notes: The first author was partially supported by an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship.
The second author was partially supported by NSF grant DMS9900025.
The third author was partially supported by a Sloan Dissertation Fellowship.
Copyright of article: Copyright 2002, American Mathematical Society

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