Fujita's program and rational points
Given a variety \(X\) defined by means of equations over a number field \(k\), Diophantine geometry considers several crucial questions. Is the set of \(k\)-rational points \(X(k)\) on \(X\) empty? If not, is \(X(k)\) finite? If so, find all solutions, or if not, give some description of ``how many there are. For this latter problem, one makes use of an embedding \(X(k)\longrightarrow{\mathbb P}^n\) into projective space (coming from a very ample line bundle on \(X\), for example), and counts the number of points with height bounded by \(B\), and the aim is to study the growth of this function as \(B\) increases. These questions are very difficult; the first is closely related to Hilbert's Tenth Problem, which, as Matijasevic explained, has no general algorithm. In the case of curves, the infinitude is related to the genus, as Faltings showed. The paper under review surveys recent developments in these topics for certain classes of varieties where the problems above seem more likely to be tractable, particularly Fano varieties. After a brief introduction, the author recalls the classification of varieties into Fano varieties (where \(-K_X\) is ample), varieties of general type (where \(K_X\) is ample), and those of intermediate type (the rest). Mori and Fujita have classification programs for varieties, and to describe the situations which seem most promising with regard to the questions above seems to be best explained in terms of Fujita's program. There follows a description of known results on bounds for the number of points in terms of the height bound \(B\) -- many of these due to the author himself in previous work; the formulae are all of a common type, and the numerical invariants depend intimately on the geometry of the varieties as explained in the previous section. After a section on Tamagawa numbers, the paper concludes with a discussion of the analytic properties of the ``height zeta function, and culminates in some harmonic analysis to compare the leading term with numerical invariants coming from a fibration appearing in Fujita's program. This is a very nice survey of the state of the field, and contains many useful motivating examples throughout. For the entire collection see [Zbl 1015.00008].
- Height zeta functions
- On Fujita's spectrum conjecture
- The effective cone of the moduli space of sheaves on the plane
- On Fujita's log spectrum conjecture
- A conjecture on rational approximations to rational points
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 4035982 (Why is no real title available?)
- Rational points on homogeneous varieties and equidistribution of adelic periods (with appendix by Mikhail Borovoi)
- The Weyl law for algebraic tori
- Counting rational points on Hirzebruch-Kleinschmidt varieties over global function fields
- Counting rational points on Hirzebruch-Kleinschmidt varieties over number fields
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