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Del Pezzo surfaces over finite fields

Algebraic Geometry 2018-03-21 v1 Number Theory

Abstract

Let XX be a del Pezzo surface of degree 22 or greater over a finite field Fq\mathbb{F}_q. The image Γ\Gamma of the Galois group Gal(Fq/Fq)\operatorname{Gal}(\overline{\mathbb{F}}_q / \mathbb{F}_q) in the group Aut(Pic(X))\operatorname{Aut}(\mathrm{Pic}(\overline{X})) is a cyclic subgroup preserving the anticanonical class and the intersection form. The conjugacy class of Γ\Gamma in the subgroup of Aut(Pic(X))\operatorname{Aut}(\mathrm{Pic}(\overline{X})) preserving the anticanonical class and the intersection form is a natural invariant of XX. We say that the conjugacy class of Γ\Gamma in Aut(Pic(X))\operatorname{Aut}(\mathrm{Pic}(\overline{X})) is the \textit{type} of a del Pezzo surface. In this paper we study which types of del Pezzo surfaces of degree 22 or greater can be realized for given qq. We collect known results about this problem and fill the gaps.

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@article{arxiv.1803.07421,
  title  = {Del Pezzo surfaces over finite fields},
  author = {Andrey Trepalin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.07421},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

28 pages, 4 tables. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1611.02832

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