On the arithmetic of weighted complete intersections of low degree

Families, moduli of curves (algebraic) (14H10) Fano varieties (14J45) Rational and unirational varieties (14M20) Rationally connected varieties (14M22)

Abstract: A variety is rationally connected if two general points can be joined by a rational curve. A higher version of this notion is rational simple connectedness, which requires suitable spaces of rational curves through two points to be rationally connected themselves. We prove that smooth, complex, weighted complete intersections of low enough degree are rationally simply connected. This result has strong arithmetic implications for weighted complete intersections defined over the function field of a smooth, complex curve. Namely, it implies that these varieties satisfy weak approximation at all places, that R-equivalence of rational points is trivial, and that the Chow group of zero cycles of degree zero is zero.

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Let \(X\) be a smooth projective variety, and \(H\) an ample invertible sheaf. Consider \(\alpha\) the class of a curve of \(H\)-degree equal to one. The coarse moduli scheme \(\overline{\mathcal M}_{0,2}(X,l\alpha)\) is parametrizing isomorphism classes of \(2\)-pointed, genus \(0\) stable maps \(f:C \to X\), such that \(f_*([C])=l\alpha\) (for details see Def. 2.6). The variety \(X\) is said rationally simple connected if for all \(l \geq 2\) there exists an irreducible component \(M_{l,2}\) of \(\overline{\mathcal M}_{0,2}(X,l\alpha)\) such that a general point of \(M_{l,2}\) parametrizes an immersed smooth curve with the property that the evaluation map \(ev_2([(C,p_1,p_2,f)])=(f(p_1),f(p_2))\), \(p_1\) and \(p_2\) the marked points, is dominant and its generic fiber is rationally connected. The main result in the paper under review (see Thm. 1.2) states that for a smooth weighted complex complete intersection \(X_{d_1,\dots,d_c}\) in the smooth locus of the weighted projective space \({\mathbb P}_{\mathbb C}(1,e_1,\dots,e_n)\), with \(d_1^2+\dots+d_c^2 \leq 1+e_1^2+\dots+e_n^2\), dimension at least \(3\) and not isomorphic to a linear space, if \(d_1+\dots+d_c \leq e_1+\dots+ e_n-2\) then \(X_{d_1,\dots,d_c}\) is rationally simply connected. This fact has several applications when the weighted complete intersection is defined over the function field of a smooth curve (see Cor. 1.3): \(X_{d_1,\dots,d_c}\) satisfies weak approximation at all places, \(R\)-equivalence of rational points is trivial (see the precise definitions in in 2.1), and the Chow group of zero cycles of degree zero is zero.

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