Higher-dimensional Shokurov-type conjecture for standard conic bundles

Let π ⁣:XS\pi \colon X \to S be an nn-dimensional standard conic bundle with n3n \ge 3, and let Δ\Delta denote the discriminant divisor of π\pi. Higher-dimensional discriminant conjecture. If

2KS+Δ,\left| 2 K_S + \Delta \right| \ne \emptyset,

then XX is not rational. If, in addition, XX is very general in its moduli, then XX is not stably rational. The first assertion extends the preceding three-dimensional criterion, while the very-general assertion proposes stable non-rationality in higher dimensions; the source presents this as a question motivated by its results, and no resolution is supplied.

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Hamid Abban and Takuzo Okada, “Stable rationality of higher dimensional conic bundles”, arXiv:1612.04206 (2018).

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