Zeta functions of curves with no rational points

DOI10.1307/MMJ/1434731929MaRDI QIDQ494156zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Daniel Litt

Publication date 31 August 2015

Published in Michigan Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1405.7380, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.mmj/1434731929

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

(L)-functions of varieties over global fields; Birch-Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture (11G40) Zeta functions and related questions in algebraic geometry (e.g., Birch-Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture) (14G10)

Abstract: We show that the motivic zeta functions of smooth, geometrically connected curves with no rational points are rational functions. This was previously known only for curves whose smooth projective models have a rational point on each connected component. In the course of the proof we study the class of a Severi-Brauer scheme over a general base in the Grothendieck ring of varieties.

Review text

Let \(k\) be a field and \(K_0(\text{Var}_k)\) the Grothendieck ring of varieties over \(k\), \(\mathbb{L}:= [\mathbb{A}^1]\in K_0(\text{Var}_k)\) the class of the affine line. In [``The elliptic curve in the S-duality theory and Eisenstein series for Kac-Moody groups, \url{arXiv:math/001005}], \textit{M. Kapranov} proved that if \(C/k\) is a smooth, geometrically connected, projective curve of genus \(g\) with \(C(k)\neq\emptyset\) and \(Z_C(t)\) the motivic zeta-function of \(C\), then \[ Z_C(t)(1- t)(1-\mathbb{L} t)\in K_0(\text{Var}_k)t \] is a polynomial of degree \(2g\). The result is analoguous to the rationality of the Weil zeta-function on \(C\) if \(k\) is a finite field. The author of the paper under review proves that also in the case when \(C(k)= \emptyset\), there exist a polynomial \(p(t)\in 1+ K_0(\text{Var}_k)[t]\) such that \[ P(t)Z_C(t)\in K_0(\text{Var}_k)t \] is a polynomial with constant term 1. For his aim he uses a description of the class in \(K_0(\text{Var}_k)\) of a Severi-Brauer variety over a general finite type \(k\)-scheme.

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