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Varieties with too many rational points
We investigate Fano varieties defined over a number field that contain
subvarieties whose number of rational points of bounded height is comparable to
the total number on the variety.Comment: 23 page
Many cubic surfaces contain rational points
Building on recent work of Bhargava--Elkies--Schnidman and Kriz--Li, we
produce infinitely many smooth cubic surfaces defined over the field of
rational numbers that contain rational points.Comment: 23 pages; minor edits and added new remark (Remark 2.1) following an
argument of Jahne
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
Density of integer solutions to diagonal quadratic forms
Let Q be a non-singular diagonal quadratic form in at least four variables.
We provide upper bounds for the number of integer solutions to the equation
Q=0, which lie in a box with sides of length 2B, as B tends to infinity. The
estimates obtained are completely uniform in the coefficients of the form, and
become sharper as they grow larger in modulus.Comment: 23 page
Equal sums of like polynomials
Let be a polynomial of degree , with integer coefficients. Then the
paucity of non-trivial positive integer solutions to the equation
is established. The corresponding situation for equal
sums of three like polynomials is also investigated.Comment: 8 pages; to appear in Bull. London Math. So
Quadratic polynomials represented by norm forms
The Hasse principle and weak approximation is established for equations of
the shape P(t)=N(x_1,x_2,x_3,x_4), where P is an irreducible quadratic
polynomial in one variable and N is a norm form associated to a quartic
extension of the rationals containing the roots of P. The proof uses analytic
methods.Comment: 55 page
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