# BIRATIONAL RIGIDITY IS NOT AN OPEN PROPERTY

• Cheltsov, Ivan (School of Mathematics University of Edinburgh Peter Guthrie Tait Road, King's Buildings Campus) ;
• Grinenko, Mikhail (Steklov Institute of Mathematics)
• Accepted : 2017.02.24
• Published : 2017.09.30

#### Abstract

We show that birational rigidity of Mori fibre spaces is not open in moduli.

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