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Diagonal quartic surfaces with a Brauer–Manin obstruction

Part of: Diophantine equations Multiplicative number theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 March 2023

Tim Santens
Tim Santens*
Affiliation:
Departement wiskunde, KU Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200B, 3001 Leuven, Belgium Tim.Santens@kuleuven.be
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Abstract

In this paper we investigate the quantity of diagonal quartic surfaces $a_0 X_0^4 + a_1 X_1^4 + a_2 X_2^4 +a_3 X_3^4 = 0$ which have a Brauer–Manin obstruction to the Hasse principle. We are able to find an asymptotic formula for the quantity of such surfaces ordered by height. The proof uses a generalization of a method of Heath-Brown on sums over linked variables. We also show that there exists no uniform formula for a generic generator in this family.

Keywords

quartic surfacesrational pointsBrauer–Manin obstructionArtin L-series

MSC classification

Secondary: 11D25: Cubic and quartic equations 11N37: Asymptotic results on arithmetic functions

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Compositio Mathematica , Volume 159 , Issue 4 , April 2023 , pp. 659 - 710
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The author is supported by FWO-Vlaanderen (Research Foundation–Flanders) with grant number 11I0621N.

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