English

Forms in many variables and differing degrees

Number Theory 2015-02-03 v2 Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

We generalise Birch's seminal work on forms in many variables to handle a system of forms in which the degrees need not all be the same. This allows us to prove the Hasse principle, weak approximation, and the Manin-Peyre conjecture for a smooth and geometrically integral projective variety, provided only that its dimension is large enough in terms of its degree.

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@article{arxiv.1403.5937,
  title  = {Forms in many variables and differing degrees},
  author = {T. D. Browning and D. R. Heath-Brown},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1403.5937},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

44 pages; Lemma 8.2 corrected

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