Abstract:
Consider a conic bundle over a smooth incomplete curve $C$, i.e. a smooth surface
$S$ with a proper surjective morphism to $C$ such that the push-forward of the structure
sheaf of $S$ coincides with the structure sheaf of $C$, and the anticanonical class of $S$ is
ample over $C$. If the base field is perfect, a conic bundle always extends to a conic
bundle over a completion of $C$. I will tell about a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of such an extension in the case of an arbitrary base field.
The talk is based on a joint work in progress with V. Vologodsky.
