Motivic measures and stable birational geometry

@article{Larsen2001MotivicMA,
  title={Motivic measures and stable birational geometry},
  author={Michael Larsen and Valery A. Lunts},
  journal={arXiv: Algebraic Geometry},
  year={2001}
}
We study the motivic Grothendieck group of algebraic varieties from the point of view of stable birational geometry. In particular, we obtain a counter-example to a conjecture of M. Kapranov on the rationality of motivic zeta-function. 
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