Fields of definition of curves of a given degree
Algebraic Geometry
2020-05-01 v2 Number Theory
Abstract
Kontsevich and Manin gave a formula for the number of rational plane curves of degree through points in general position in the plane. When these points have coordinates in the rational numbers, the corresponding set of rational curves has a natural Galois-module structure. We make some extremely preliminary investigations into this Galois module structure, and relate this to the deck transformations of the generic fibre of the product of the evaluation maps on the moduli space of maps. We then study the asymptotics of the number of rational points on hypersurfaces of low degree, and use this to generalise our results by replacing the projective plane by such a hypersurface.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1901.11294,
title = {Fields of definition of curves of a given degree},
author = {David Holmes and Nick Rome},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.11294},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
19 pages, comments welcome