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Classification of singular del Pezzo surfaces over finite fields

Algebraic Geometry 2023-02-01 v1 Number Theory

Abstract

In this article, we consider weak del Pezzo surfaces defined over a finite field, and their associated, singular, anticanonical models. We first define arithmetic types for such surfaces, by considering the Frobenius actions on their Picard groups; this extends the classification of Swinnerton-Dyer and Manin for ordinary del Pezzo surfaces. We also show that some invariants of the surfaces only depend on the above type.Then we study an inverse Galois problem for singular del Pezzo surfaces having degree 3d63\leq d\leq 6: we describe which types can occur over a given finite field (of odd characteristic when 3d43\leq d\leq 4).

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@article{arxiv.2301.13582,
  title  = {Classification of singular del Pezzo surfaces over finite fields},
  author = {Régis Blache and Emmanuel Hallouin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.13582},
  year   = {2023}
}
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