Persistence of the Brauer-Manin obstruction on cubic surfaces

DOI10.4310/MRL.2022.V29.N6.A11zbMATH Open1520.14050arXiv2111.03546OpenAlexW3213807688MaRDI QIDQ6043372FDOQ6043372

Authors: Carlos Rivera, Bianca Viray 

Publication date: 5 May 2023

Published in: Mathematical Research Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let $X$ be a cubic surface over a global field $k$. We prove that a Brauer-Manin obstruction to the existence of $k$-points on $X$ will persist over every extension $L/k$ with degree relatively prime to $3$. In other words, a cubic surface has nonempty Brauer set over $k$ if and only if it has nonempty Brauer set over some extension $L/k$ with $3mid[L:k]$. Therefore, the conjecture of Colliot-Th'el`ene and Sansuc on the sufficiency of the Brauer-Manin obstruction for cubic surfaces implies that $X$ has a $k$-rational point if and only if $X$ has a $0$-cycle of degree $1$. This latter statement is a special case of a conjecture of Cassels and Swinnerton-Dyer.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.03546

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zbMATH Keywords

cubic surfaceBrauer-Manin obstructionglobal fieldCassels-Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Varieties over global fields (11G35) Hasse principle, weak and strong approximation, Brauer-Manin obstruction (14G12)

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