Ramified descent

MaRDI QIDQ6384602zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Julian Demeio

Publication date 1 December 2021

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Varieties over global fields (11G35) Rational points (14G05) Hasse principle, weak and strong approximation, Brauer-Manin obstruction (14G12)

Abstract: We investigate the "ramified descent problem": which adelic points of a smooth geometrically connected variety $X$ defined over a number field $K$ can be approximated by points that lift to a (twist of a) given ramified cover? We show that the natural descent set corresponding to the problem defines an obstruction to Hasse Principle and weak approximation. Furthermore, we introduce a Brauer-Manin obstruction to the problem. This obstruction can be purely transcendental (and non-trivial) even for abelian covers, which answers in the negative a question posed by Harari at a 2019 workshop. Moreover, the counterexample we produce is also an explicit example of transcendental obstruction to weak approximation for a quotient $S{L}_n/G$, with $G$ constant metabelian.

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