A note on the stable equivalence problem

Abstract

We provide counterexamples to the stable equivalence problem in every dimension $d\geq2$. That means that we construct hypersurfaces $H_1, H_2\subset\C^{d+1}$ whose cylinders $H_1\times\C$ and $H_2\times\C$ are equivalent hypersurfaces in $\C^{d+2}$, although $H_1$ and $H_2$ themselves are not equivalent by an automorphism of $\C^{d+1}$. We also give, for every $d\geq2$, examples of two non-isomorphic algebraic varieties of dimension $d$ which are biholomorphic.