110 research outputs found
Rational points and non-anticanonical height functions
A conjecture of Batyrev and Manin predicts the asymptotic behaviour of
rational points of bounded height on smooth projective varieties over number
fields. We prove some new cases of this conjecture for conic bundle surfaces
equipped with some non-anticanonical height functions. As a special case, we
verify these conjectures for the first time for some smooth cubic surfaces for
height functions associated to certain ample line bundles.Comment: 16 pages; minor corrections; Proceedings of the American Mathematical
Society, 147 (2019), no. 8, 3209-322
On a certain non-split cubic surface
In this note, we establish an asymptotic formula for the number of rational
points of bounded height on the singular cubic surface with a power-saving error term, which verifies the Manin-Peyre
conjectures for this surface.Comment: v2. 18 pages, one author adde
On the order three Brauer classes for cubic surfaces
We describe a method to compute the Brauer-Manin obstruction for smooth cubic
surfaces over \bbQ such that \Br(S)/\Br(\bbQ) is a 3-group. Our approach is
to associate a Brauer class with every ordered triplet of Galois invariant
pairs of Steiner trihedra. We show that all order three Brauer classes may be
obtained in this way. To show the effect of the obstruction, we give explicit
examples.Comment: Extended introduction, discussion of the example of Cassels and Gu
The Manin conjecture in dimension 2
These lecture notes describe the current state of affairs for Manin's
conjecture in the context of del Pezzo surfaces.Comment: 57 pages. These are a preliminary version of lecture notes for the
"School and conference on analytic number theory", ICTP, Trieste,
23/04/07-11/05/0
Rational points of bounded height on general conic bundle surfaces
A conjecture of Manin predicts the asymptotic distribution of rational points
of bounded height on Fano varieties. In this paper we use conic bundles to
obtain correct lower bounds or a wide class of surfaces over number fields for
which the conjecture is still far from being proved. For example, we obtain the
conjectured lower bound of Manin's conjecture for any del Pezzo surface whose
Picard rank is sufficiently large, or for arbitrary del Pezzo surfaces after
possibly an extension of the ground field of small degree.Comment: 35 pages; final versio
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