Counting rational points on Kummer surfaces

DOI10.1007/S40993-019-0166-XMaRDI QIDQ2320012zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Andreas Malmendier, Yih Sung

Publication date 21 August 2019

Published in Research in Number Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.11151

zbMATH Keywords

Kummer surfaceManin principlerational points

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Arithmetic ground fields (finite, local, global) and families or fibrations (14D10) Hasse principle, weak and strong approximation, Brauer-Manin obstruction (14G12) (K3) surfaces and Enriques surfaces (14J28) Appell, Horn and Lauricella functions (33C65)

Abstract: We consider the problem of counting the number of rational points on the family of Kummer surfaces associated with two non-isogenous elliptic curves. For this two-parameter family we prove Manin's unity, using the presentation of the Kummer surfaces as isotrivial elliptic fibration and as double cover of the modular elliptic surface of level two. By carrying out the rational point-count with respect to either of the two elliptic fibrations explicitly, we obtain an interesting new identity between two-parameter counting functions.

Review text

The paper under review proves a generalisation of Manin's Unity theorem to Kummer surfaces. Specifically, Manin's Unity theorem proves that the point-counting function (over a finite field) on certain total spaces of families of algebraic curves satisfies a differential equation called the Picard-Fuchs equation. In this paper, the authors generalise the Picard-Fuchs equation to a system of differential equations that they call the Picard-Fuchs system. They then consider a Kummer surface \(X\) associated to the product of two non-isogenous elliptic cures. In this case, there are two different families of elliptic curves on \(X\), corresponding to the two projections inherited from the product. The authors show that \(X\) satisfies their Picard-Fuchs system. This enables them to establish two different expressions for the same point-counting function (namely, the one on \(X\)), and thereby generate a relationship between two special functions.

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