Many cubic surfaces contain rational points

DOI10.1112/S0025579317000195MaRDI QIDQ4604474zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors T. D. Browning

Publication date 26 February 2018

Published in Mathematika (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.00525

zbMATH Keywords

cubic surfaceelliptic curverational pointsunconditionallocally solvablebinary formpositive rankpositive proportion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Cubic and quartic Diophantine equations (11D25) Elliptic curves over global fields (11G05) Varieties over global fields (11G35) Rational points (14G05) Global ground fields in algebraic geometry (14G25)

Abstract: Building on recent work of Bhargava--Elkies--Schnidman and Kriz--Li, we produce infinitely many smooth cubic surfaces defined over the field of rational numbers that contain rational points.

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