{"title":"The behavior of essential dimension under specialization, II","authors":"Zinovy Reichstein, Federico Scavia","doi":"10.2140/ant.2023.17.1925","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p>Let <math display=\"inline\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\"><mi>G</mi></math> be a linear algebraic group over a field. We show that, under mild assumptions, in a family of primitive generically free <math display=\"inline\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\"><mi>G</mi></math>-varieties over a base variety <math display=\"inline\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\"><mi>B</mi></math>, the essential dimension of the geometric fibers may drop on a countable union of Zariski closed subsets of <math display=\"inline\" xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\"><mi>B</mi></math> and stays constant away from this countable union. We give several applications of this result. </p>","PeriodicalId":50828,"journal":{"name":"Algebra & Number Theory","volume":"11 24","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9000,"publicationDate":"2023-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Algebra & Number Theory","FirstCategoryId":"100","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.2140/ant.2023.17.1925","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"MATHEMATICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Let be a linear algebraic group over a field. We show that, under mild assumptions, in a family of primitive generically free -varieties over a base variety , the essential dimension of the geometric fibers may drop on a countable union of Zariski closed subsets of and stays constant away from this countable union. We give several applications of this result.
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