Kantor's fiberwise formulation for rational standard conic bundles

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Let π:X→S\pi:X\to S be a standard conic bundle, and suppose that there is a birational map

Φ:X⇢P3.\Phi:X\dashrightarrow\mathbb{P}^3.

A Cremona transformation is a birational self-map of P3\mathbb{P}^3. Kantor's conjecture. There exists a Cremona transformation τ:P3⇢P3\tau:\mathbb{P}^3\dashrightarrow\mathbb{P}^3 such that the composition τ∘Φ:X⇢P3\tau\circ\Phi:X\dashrightarrow\mathbb{P}^3 sends a general fiber of π\pi either to a conic or to a line.

This is presented in the source as an equivalent formulation of Kantor's conjecture for congruences of rational curves. The supplied text gives no evidence that it has been resolved.

References

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Yuri Prokhorov, “The rationality problem for conic bundles”, arXiv:1712.05564 (2018).

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