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Degenerations of rationally connected varieties

Author(s): Amit Hogadi; Chenyang Xu
Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 361 (2009), 3931-3949.
MSC (2000): Primary 14J26, 14J45; Secondary 14E30, 14G27
Posted: March 3, 2009
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Abstract: We prove that a degeneration of rationally connected varieties over a field of characteristic zero always contains a geometrically irreducible subvariety which is rationally connected.

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Amit Hogadi
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544
Address at time of publication: School of Mathematics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Homi Bhabha Road, Colaba, Mumbai 400005 India
Email: amit@math.princeton.edu

Chenyang Xu
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544
Email: chenyang@math.princeton.edu

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9947-09-04715-1
PII: S 0002-9947(09)04715-1
Received by editor(s): June 6, 2007
Received by editor(s) in revised form: November 29, 2007
Posted: March 3, 2009
Copyright of article: Copyright 2009, American Mathematical Society
The copyright for this article reverts to public domain after 28 years from publication.




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