On a conjecture of Voisin on rationally equivalent points on hypersurfaces
Speaker:
Xi Chen, University of Alberta
Date and Time:
Saturday, March 11, 2017 - 11:30am to 12:20pm
Location:
Fields Institute, Room 230
Abstract:
C. Voisin proved that no two distinct points are rationally equivalent on a very general surface of degree at least 7 in the projective space and she conjectured that the same holds for very general sextic surfaces as well. I will talk about our recent progress on this conjecture.