Manin's conjecture for a singular sextic del Pezzo surface (Q719143)

The main object of the paper under review is a particular singular del Pezzo surface \(S\) of degree 6. It has one singular point of type \(A_ 2\), contains two rational lines, and can be obtained as an equivariant compactification of \(\mathbb G_ a^ 2\). The author's goal is to check for \(S\) (in the case where the ground field is \(\mathbb Q\)) a conjecture of Manin concerning the asymptotic behaviour of the number of rational points of \(S\) (lying outside the rational lines) of bounded height. The main results of the paper confirm and sharpen this conjecture. In particular, the \textit{E.~Peyre} constant (see [Duke Math. J. 79, No. 1, 101--218 (1995; Zbl 0901.14025)]) is computed explicitly. Besides that, the author gives an explicit expression and meromorphic continuation for the associated height zeta function.