On cubic surfaces with a rational line

DOI10.1007/S00013-012-0356-4MaRDI QIDQ412031zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Andreas-Stephan Elsenhans, Jörg Jahnel

Publication date 3 May 2012

Published in Archiv der Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1106.4130

zbMATH Keywords

Cubic surfaceLineRationalsSubgroupWeil group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Varieties over global fields (11G35) Global ground fields in algebraic geometry (14G25) Rational and ruled surfaces (14J26)

Abstract: We report on our project to construct non-singular cubic surfaces over $$ with a rational line. Our method is to start with degree 4 Del Pezzo surfaces in diagonal form. For these, we develop an explicit version of Galois descent.

Review text

For a smooth cubic surface \(S\) defined over \(\mathbb{Q}\) the 27 lines are acted on by a subgroup \(G\) of the Weil group \(W(E_6)\). It is an open problem whether or not each of the 350 possible conjugacy classes of subgroups is realizable in this way. There are 172 conjugacy classes which fix a line, and the present paper reports on a programme which has successfully found cubic surfaces \(S\) over \(\mathbb{Q}\) realizing each of these cases. The cases in which the subgroup stabilizes a double-six or a pair of Steiner trihedra have already been covered by the authors [Cent. Eur. J. Math. 8, No. 4, 646--661 (2010; Zbl 1203.14040)] and [Int. J. Number Theory, to appear]. For the remaining 76 subgroups the programme began with a naive search over surfaces of low height, which left only 6 cases to be handled. For these the procedure begins with the observation that a cubic surface \(S\) which contains a line may be transformed into a del Pezzo surface of degree 4 with a rational point. This allows one to use explicit calculations in fields defined by square roots.

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