Counting rational points on K3 surfaces

Abstract: For any algebraic variety

V

defined over a number field

k

, and ample height function

H

on

V

, one can define the counting function

. In this paper, we calculate the counting function for Kummer surfaces

V

whose associated abelian surface is the product of elliptic curves. In particular, we effectively construct a finite union

C = c u p C_{i}

of curves

C_{i}

on

V

such that

N_{V - C} (B) l l N_{C} (B)

; that is,

C

is an accumulating subset of

V

. In the terminology of Batyrev and Manin, this amounts to proving that

C

is the first layer of the arithmetic stratification of

V

.

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