Rational singularities and rational points

DOI10.4310/PAMQ.2008.V4.N3.A5zbMATH Open1162.14015arXivmath/0601131MaRDI QIDQ998626FDOQ998626

Manuel Blickle, Hélène Esnault

Publication date: 9 February 2009

Published in: Pure and Applied Mathematics Quarterly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: If $X$ is a projective, geometrically irreducible variety defined over a finite field $F_q$, such that it is smooth and its Chow group of 0-cycles fulfills base change, i.e. $$, then the second author's theorem asserts that its number of rational points satisfies $|X(F_q)|equiv1$ modulo $q$. If $X$ is not smooth, this is no longer true. Indeed J. Koll'ar constructed an example of a rationally connected surface over $F_q$ without any rational points. Based on the work by Berthelot-Bloch and the second author computing the slope $<1$ piece of rigid cohomology, we define a notion of Witt-rational singularities in characteristic $p>0$. The theorem is then that if $X/F_q$ is a projective, geometrically irreducible variety, such that it has Witt-rational singularities and its Chow group of 0-cycles fulfills base change, then $|X(F_q)|equiv1$ modulo $q$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0601131

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zbMATH Keywords

Chow grouprational pointprojective varietyWitt-rational singularity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

(Equivariant) Chow groups and rings; motives (14C15) Algebraic cycles (14C25) (p)-adic cohomology, crystalline cohomology (14F30)

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