Conjecture on the motivic birational invariant for projective three-space over arbitrary fields

Let k\mathbb k be a field, and let CC and CC' be smooth projective curves over k\mathbb k that are D-equivalent and whose geometric irreducible components have genus 11. The associated differences are P1([C][C])\mathbb P^1\cdot([C]-[C']). Image-generation conjecture. For any field k\mathbb k, the image c(Bir(Pk3))c({\operatorname{Bir}}(\mathbb P^3_\mathbb k)) is generated by differences of the form

P1([C][C]).\mathbb P^1\cdot([C]-[C']).

This is a conjectural description over nonclosed fields, where the invariant is known to vanish over algebraically closed fields of characteristic zero. The proposed generators reflect the currently constructed nontrivial examples; only curves whose geometric irreducible components have genus at most 11 can contribute, and genus-zero curves yield no nontrivial D-equivalence.

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Hsueh-Yung Lin and Evgeny Shinder, “Unboundedness for motivic invariants of birational automorphisms”, arXiv:2510.00290 (2026).

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