Moduli conjecture for A^1-contractible smooth varieties

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Let m3m\geq 3 and n0n\geq 0. A connected nn-dimensional scheme SS is given, together with a smooth morphism

f:XSf:X\longrightarrow S

of relative dimension mm, whose fibers are A1\mathbb{A}^1-contractible. For a fixed field kk, consider the fibers over the kk-points of SS.

Moduli conjecture. For every m3m\geq 3 and every n0n\geq 0, there exists such an SS and ff for which the fibers over the kk-points of SS are all non-isomorphic.

This predicts arbitrary-dimensional moduli of pairwise non-isomorphic smooth A1\mathbb{A}^1-contractible varieties. The paper constructs explicit families in dimensions at least 66; the conjectural assertion concerns every relative dimension at least 33.

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Primary source

Aravind Asok and Brent Doran, “On unipotent quotients and some A^1-contractible smooth schemes”, arXiv:math/0703137 (2007).

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