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Free rational points on smooth hypersurfaces

Number Theory 2020-02-20 v2 Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

Motivated by a recent question of Peyre, we apply the Hardy-Littlewood circle method to count "sufficiently free" rational points of bounded height on arbitrary smooth projective hypersurfaces of low degree that are defined over the rational numbers.

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@article{arxiv.1906.08463,
  title  = {Free rational points on smooth hypersurfaces},
  author = {Tim Browning and Will Sawin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.08463},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

23 pages; minor corrections and clarifications

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