Singularity conditions on the class group of Zariski surfaces (Q376033)

The author continues his study of Zariski surfaces and their class groups in the reviewed article. A normal surface of the form \(z^p=g(x,y)\) in an affine three space over an algebraically closed field of characteristic \(p>0\) is called a Zariski surface for the purpose of this review. The author, with others have studied the class groups of such surfaces and in particular have shown that the class group is trivial if \(g\) is generic of degree at least four with \(p>2\) and is a group of order 2 if \(p=2\) and \(\deg(g)\geq 5\) [\textit{P. Blass}, Compos. Math. 54, 3--36 (1985; Zbl 0624.14021); \textit{J. Lang} and \textit{A. Grant}, J. Algebra 132, No. 2, 340--360 (1990; Zbl 0738.14021); \textit{J. Lang}, Compos. Math. 73, No. 3, 345--361 (1990; Zbl 0738.14022)].NEWLINENEWLINEThe paper under review deals in particular with the case when the surface has the maximum number of singularities and prove similar theorems. More precisely, for such a surface, consider \(S_g=\{Q_1,\dots,Q_r\}\), the set of singular points of \(g=0\). Let \(H=g_{xy}^2-g_{xx}g_{yy}\). Let \(E\) be the field generated by the coefficients of \(g\) and coordinates of points in \(S_g\) over the prime field. If \(E(\sqrt{H(Q_i)})\) are distinct, then a similar result as above holds for its class group.