Families of rationally connected varieties
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- by Tom Graber, Joe Harris and Jason Starr
- J. Amer. Math. Soc. 16 (2003), 57-67
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0894-0347-02-00402-2
- Published electronically: July 29, 2002
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Abstract:
We prove that every one-parameter family of complex rationally connected varieties has a section.References
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Bibliographic Information
- 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
- Received by editor(s): September 6, 2001
- Received by editor(s) in revised form: May 3, 2002
- Published electronically: 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 2002 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: J. Amer. Math. Soc. 16 (2003), 57-67
- MSC (2000): Primary 14M20, 14D05
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0894-0347-02-00402-2
- MathSciNet review: 1937199