Counting rational points on smooth cyclic covers

DOI10.1016/J.JNT.2012.02.010MaRDI QIDQ423619zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors D. R. Heath-Brown, Lillian Beatrix Pierce

Publication date 4 June 2012

Published in Journal of Number Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1109.1455

zbMATH Keywords

cyclic coversrational pointscharacter sumspower sieve

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Rational points (14G05) Counting solutions of Diophantine equations (11D45) Estimates on character sums (11L40)

Abstract: A conjecture of Serre concerns the number of rational points of bounded height on a finite cover of projective space P^{n-1}. In this paper, we achieve Serre's conjecture in the special case of smooth cyclic covers of any degree when n is at least 10, and surpass it for covers of degree 3 or higher when n > 10. This is achieved by a new bound for the number of perfect r-th power values of a polynomial with nonsingular leading form, obtained via a combination of an r-th power sieve and the q-analogue of van der Corput's method.

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