Weak approximation for Fano complete intersections in positive characteristic

DOI10.5802/AIF.3495MaRDI QIDQ2675331zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Zhiyu Tian, Runhong Zong, Jason Michael Starr

Publication date 21 September 2022

Published in Annales de l’institut Fourier (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.02466

zbMATH Keywords

separably rationally connectedstabilityweak approximation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Arithmetic ground fields (finite, local, global) and families or fibrations (14D10) Hasse principle, weak and strong approximation, Brauer-Manin obstruction (14G12) Rationally connected varieties (14M22)

Abstract: For a smooth curve $B$ over an algebraically closed field $k$, for every $B$-flat complete intersection $X_B$ in $Bime{s}_{extSpeck}mathbb{P}_k^n$ of type $(d_1,dots,d_c)$, if the Fano index is $geq2$ and if $extchar(k)>max(d_1,dots,d_c)$, we prove weak approximation of $widehat{mathcalO}_{B,b}$-points of $X_B$ by $k(B)$-points at all places of (strong) potentially good reduction, including all places of good reduction. The key step is the proof that such complete intersections are emph{separably uniruled by lines}, and even emph{separably rationally connected}, whenever smooth. We prove that the inequality is close to sharp. We prove a similar theorem for Fano manifolds of Picard number $1$ and Fano index $1$.

Review text

Let \(k\) be an algebraically closed field of characteristic \(p\geq 0\), and let \(B\) be a smooth connected curve defined over \(k\). Let \[ X_B \subset B\times_{\mathrm{Spec}\, k}\mathbb{P}^n_k \] be a complete intersection of multidegree \((d_1,\dots,d_c)\). If \(X_B\) is Fano, i.e. if \(n+1-(d_1+\dots d_c)>0\), the complete intersection \(X_B\) has at least one \(k(B)\)-point by Tsen's theorem. If \(X_B\) is singular, this statement is optimal, as shown by a cone over a Calabi-Yau hypersurface without \(k(B)\)-points. If \(X_B\) is Fano and smooth one expects that there are infinitely many \(k(B)\)-points, and even that weak approximation holds, i.e. density of \(k(B)\)-points on the set of adelic points. In characteristic \(p=0\), the work of \textit{B. Hassett} and \textit{Y. Tschinkel} [Invent. Math. 163, No. 1, 171--190 (2006; Zbl 1095.14049)] and two of the authors [J. Reine Angew. Math. 752, 1--23 (2019; Zbl 1419.14028)] implies weak approximation at places of (strong) potentially good reduction. In this paper they prove a similar result in positive characteristic: assume that \(p>\max(d_1, \dots,d_c)\) and \(n+1-(d_1+\dots d_c)>1\). Then weak approximation holds for (strong) potentially good reduction complete intersections of this type. The same statement holds for Fano index one, i.e. \(n+1-(d_1+\dots d_c)=1\), if one also assumes that \(p\) is prime to the Gromov-Witten invariant of \(1\)-pointed conics.

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