Rational points on fibrations
The paper under review gives a survey of recent results on rational points of algebraic varieties over number fields, mainly obtained by the fibration method, and thus can be viewed as a natural continuation of an earlier author's publication [in: Number theory. Proc. int. cong. discr. math. number theory, India 1996, Contemp. Math. 210, 19--39 (1998; Zbl 0910.14008)]. Note however that a substantial part of mentioned results is given with complete proofs (especially in chapter 1); moreover, chapter 3 contains original results due to the author. Here are some details on the content of the paper. The introduction contains a brief account of basic notions necessary to introduce the reader into the context of problems under consideration: the Brauer-Manin pairing and its use for describing obstructions to the Hasse principle and weak approximation, particularly in the special case when the variety under investigation can be fibred over the projective line so that all geometric fibres contain a component of multiplicity one. Chapter 1 is focused on the descent method for non-complete varieties (``open descent). First, the author presents a simplified proof of the ``formal lemma of \textit{D.~Harari} [Duke Math. J. 75, No. 1, 221--260 (1994; Zbl 0847.14001)] which is indispensable while working with the Brauer pairing on non-complete varieties. Second, he gives a summary of the descent method explaining the relationship between torsors and the Brauer group. Finally, he discusses a beautiful example of \textit{D.~ R. Heath-Brown} and \textit{A.~N.~Skorobogatov} [Acta Math. 189, 161--177 (2002; Zbl 1023.11033)] when this method (combined with the circle method) allows one to prove that for certain hypersurfaces of norm type the Brauer-Manin obstruction to the Hasse principle and weak approximation is the only one. The author gives a slightly simplified version of the proof of this result. (It is worth mentioning that this result has been generalized, using the same method of open descent, by \textit{J.-L.~Colliot-Thélène, D.~Harari, and A.~N.~Skorobogatov} [Lond. Math. Soc. Lecture Notes Ser. 303, 69--89 (2003; Zbl 1087.14016)]. Chapter 2 is devoted to a new method invented by \textit{P. Swinnerton-Dyer} [in: Abelian Varieties, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, 273--292 (1995; Zbl 0849.14009)] and improved by \textit{J.-L.~Colliot-Thélène, A.~N.~Skorobogatov} and \textit{P.~Swinnerton-Dyer} [Invent. Math. 134, 579--650 (1998; Zbl 0924.14011)] which ensures the existence of many rational points on a variety fibred over the projective line into principal homogeneous spaces under an abelian variety. The author describes in some detail the main features and gives an overview of the main results obtained by the method. The emphasis is made on a recent result by \textit{P.~Swinnerton-Dyer} [in: Ann. Sci. Éc. Norm. Sup. 34, 891--912 (2001; Zbl 1003.11028)] establishing the Hasse principle for all diagonal cubic hypersurfaces of dimension at least 3 (as well as for some classes of diagonal cubic surfaces) defined over the field of rational numbers (under the assumption of finiteness of the 3-primary part of the Tate-Shafarevich group of certain elliptic curves). In chapter 3 the author proves an (unconditional) analogue of the above mentioned result of Swinnerton-Dyer in the case where the ground field is a function field in one variable over a finite field \({\mathbb F}_q\) (\(q\) odd, \(q\equiv 2\pmod 3)\). For the entire collection see [Zbl 1015.00008].
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