Odd order obstructions to the Hasse principle on general K3 surfaces

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Odd order obstructions to the Hasse principle on general \(K3\) surfaces



Abstract: We show that odd order transcendental elements of the Brauer group of a K3 surface can obstruct the Hasse principle. We exhibit a general K3 surface Y of degree 2 over mathbbQ together with a three torsion Brauer class alpha that is unramified at all primes except for 3, but ramifies at all 3-adic points of Y. Motivated by Hodge theory, the pair (Y,alpha) is constructed from a cubic fourfold X of discriminant 18 birational to a fibration into sextic del Pezzo surfaces over the projective plane. Notably, our construction does not rely on the presence of a central simple algebra representative for alpha. Instead, we prove that a sufficient condition for such a Brauer class to obstruct the Hasse principle is insolubility of the fourfold X (and hence the fibers) over mathbbQ3 and local solubility at all other primes.




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