Cohomology of the universal smooth cubic surface

DOI10.1093/QMATH/HAAA046MaRDI QIDQ3382296zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ronno Das

Publication date 21 September 2021

Published in The Quarterly Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.00737

zbMATH Keywords

cubic surfacediscriminant polynomialfiber bundleincidence varietymoduli spacerational cohomologysimplicial resolutionuniversal familyWeyl group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Families, moduli, classification: algebraic theory (14J10) Rational and ruled surfaces (14J26) Hypersurfaces and algebraic geometry (14J70) Discriminantal varieties and configuration spaces in algebraic topology (55R80)

Abstract: We compute the rational cohomology of the universal family of smooth cubic surfaces using Vassiliev's method of simplicial resolution. Modulo embedding, the universal family has cohomology isomorphic to that of $mathbb{P}^2$. A consequence of our theorem is that over the finite field $mathbb{F}_q$, away from finitely many characteristics, the average number of points on a smooth cubic surface is $q^2+q+1$.

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