Serre's problem on the density of isotropic fibres in conic bundles

DOI10.1112/PLMS/PDW030MaRDI QIDQ2827969zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Efthymios Sofos

Publication date 24 October 2016

Published in Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society. Third Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.03140, http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/198842/1/198842.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

lower boundsieveconic bundleSerre problemdivisor sumHooley neutralizerisotropic fibre

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Rational points (14G05) Quadratic and bilinear Diophantine equations (11D09) Counting solutions of Diophantine equations (11D45) Applications of sieve methods (11N36) Arithmetic ground fields (finite, local, global) and families or fibrations (14D10) Asymptotic results on counting functions for algebraic and topological structures (11N45)

Abstract: Let $pi:Xomathbb{P}_{mathbbQ}^1$ be a non-singular conic bundle over $mathbbQ$ having $n$ non-split fibres and denote by $N(pi,B)$ the cardinality of the fibres of Weil height at most $B$ that possess a rational point. Serre showed in $1990$ that a direct application of the large sieve yields ${\displaystyle }$N(pi,B)ll B^2(log B)^{-n/2}${\displaystyle }$ and raised the problem of proving that this is the true order of magnitude of $N(pi,B)$ under the necessary assumption that there exists at least one smooth fibre with a rational point. We solve this problem for all non-singular conic bundles of rank at most $3$. Our method comprises the use of Hooley neutralisers, estimating divisor sums over values of binary forms, and an application of the Rosser-Iwaniec sieve.

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