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We study stable rationality properties of conic bundles over rational surfaces.
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The first author was supported by NSF Grants 1148609 and 1401764. The second author was supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation. The third author was supported by NSF Grant 1160859. We are grateful to I. Cheltsov, J.-L. Colliot-Thélène, L. Katzarkov, A. Pirutka, and B. Totaro for comments and suggestions.
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Hassett, B., Kresch, A. & Tschinkel, Y. Stable rationality and conic bundles. Math. Ann. 365, 1201–1217 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00208-015-1292-y
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