Free rational points on smooth hypersurfaces

DOI10.4171/CMH/499MaRDI QIDQ2227779zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors T. D. Browning, William F. Sawin

Publication date 15 February 2021

Published in Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.08463

zbMATH Keywords

circle methodfreenessgeometry of numbersheightsrational points

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Counting solutions of Diophantine equations (11D45) Applications of the Hardy-Littlewood method (11P55) Rational points (14G05)

Abstract: Motivated by a recent question of Peyre, we apply the Hardy-Littlewood circle method to count "sufficiently free" rational points of bounded height on arbitrary smooth projective hypersurfaces of low degree that are defined over the rational numbers.

Review text

We consider \(V\subseteq \mathbb{P}^{n-1}\) to be a smooth hypersurface of degree \(d > 3\), defined over the rationals. We consider \(H\) the exponential height function on \(\mathbb{P}^{n-1}(\mathbb{Q})\). Let us define, for real \(B\), \(N_V(B)=|\{x\in V(\mathbb{Q}):\,H(x)\leq B\}|\). In this context, using the circle method of Hardy-Ramanujan one can prove that \(N_V(B)=cB^{n-d}+O_V(B^{n-d-\delta})\), for certain \(\delta>0\) and \(c>0\) (\(c\) is an explicit constant with algebraic interpretation). The main contribution of this paper is to address the similar question to the context of of `sufficiently free' rational points of bounded height on \(V\). See the paper [\textit{E. Peyre}, Doc. Math. 22, 1615--1659 (2017; Zbl 1434.11084)] for a precise definition. In this context, the authors obtain similar estimates in this context, by using a wide variety of techniques: geometry of numbers, Hardy-Littlewood circle method, etc.

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