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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 NeN_e of rational plane curves of degree ee through 3e13e-1 points in general position in the plane. When these 3e13e-1 points have coordinates in the rational numbers, the corresponding set of NeN_e 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.

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@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}
}

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