“…An integral variety X over a field k is stably rational if X × P m is rational, for some m. In recent years, failure of stable rationality has been established for many classes of smooth rationally connected projective complex varieties, see, for instance [1,3,4,7,15,16,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,33,34,36,37]. These results were obtained by the specialization method, introduced by C. Voisin [37] and developed in [16].…”