Originating from the School on Birational Geometry of Hypersurfaces, this volume focuses on the notion of (stable) rationality of projective varieties and, more specifically, hypersurfaces in projective spaces, and provides a large number of open questions, techniques and spectacular results.
The aim of the school was to shed light on this vast area of research by concentrating on two main aspects: (1) Approaches focusing on (stable) rationality using deformation theory and Chow-theoretic tools like decomposition of the diagonal; (2) The connection between K3 surfaces, hyperkähler geometry and cubic fourfolds, which has both a Hodge-theoretic and a homological side.
Featuring the beautiful lectures given at the school by Jean-Louis Colliot-Thélène, Daniel Huybrechts, Emanuele Macrì, and Claire Voisin, the volume also includes additional notes by János Kollár and an appendix by Andreas Hochenegger.
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Part I Birational Invariants and (Stable) Rationality. - Birational Invariants and Decomposition of the Diagonal. - Non rationalité stable sur les corps quelconques. - Introduction to work of Hassett-Pirutka-Tschinkel and Schreieder. -
Part II Hypersurfaces. - The Rigidity Theorem of Fano-Segre-Iskovskikh-Manin-Pukhlikov-Corti-Cheltsov-deFernex-Ein-Mustata-Zhuang. - Hodge Theory of Cubic Fourfolds, Their Fano Varieties, and Associated K3 Categories. - Lectures on Non-commutative K3 Surfaces, Bridgeland Stability, and Moduli Spaces. - Appendix: Introduction to Derived Categories of Coherent Sheaves.
