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Effective equidistribution, arithmetic purity of strong approximation, and geometric sieve for affine quadrics

Number Theory 2025-09-30 v1 Dynamical Systems

Abstract

Let kk be a number field. Let q(x1,,xn)q(x_1,\cdots,x_n) be a non-degenerate integral quadratic form in n3n\geq 3 variables with coefficients in kk and mk×m\in k^\times. Let XX be the affine quadric defined by q=mq=m in Akn\mathbb{A}^n_k. Based on results on effective equidistribution of SS-integral points in symmetric spaces, we establish the following: (i) The arithmetic purity of strong approximation off any single place of kk for XX; (ii) The geometric sieve for p0p_0-integral points on XX when k=Qk=\mathbb{Q} and p0p_0 is a prime number.

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@article{arxiv.2509.23320,
  title  = {Effective equidistribution, arithmetic purity of strong approximation, and geometric sieve for affine quadrics},
  author = {Yang Cao and Zhizhong Huang and Runlin Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.23320},
  year   = {2025}
}