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Everywhere local solubility for hypersurfaces in products of projective spaces

Number Theory 2020-10-20 v3 Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

We prove that a positive proportion of hypersurfaces in products of projective spaces over Q\mathbb{Q} are everywhere locally soluble, for almost all multidegrees and dimensions, as a generalization of a theorem of Poonen and Voloch. We also study the specific case of genus 11 curves in P1×P1\mathbb{P}^1 \times \mathbb{P}^1 defined over Q\mathbb{Q}, represented as bidegree (2,2)(2,2)-forms, and show that the proportion of everywhere locally soluble such curves is approximately 87.4%87.4\%. The proportion of these curves in P1×P1\mathbb{P}^1 \times \mathbb{P}^1 soluble over Qp\mathbb{Q}_p is a rational function of pp for each finite prime pp. Finally, we include some experimental data on the Hasse principle for these curves.

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@article{arxiv.1911.09623,
  title  = {Everywhere local solubility for hypersurfaces in products of projective spaces},
  author = {Tom Fisher and Wei Ho and Jennifer Park},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.09623},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

Added a case to Conjecture 1.2 (and 2.4), and a few other minor changes. To appear in Research in Number Theory