Hypersurface model-fields of definition for smooth hypersurfaces and their twists
Abstract
Given a smooth projective variety of dimension defined over a perfect field that admits a non-singular hypersurface modelin over , a fixed algebraic closure of , it does not necessarily have a non-singular hypersurface model defined over the base field . We first show an example of such phenomenon: a variety defined over admitting non-singular hypersurface models but none defined over . We also determine under which conditions a non-singular hypersurface model over may exist. Now, even assuming that such a smooth hypersurface model exists, we wonder about the existence of non-singular hypersurface models over for its twists. We introduce a criterion to characterize twists possessing such models and we also show an example of a twist not admitting any non-singular hypersurface model over , i.e for any , there is a smooth projective variety of dimension over which is a twist of a smooth hypersurface variety over , but itself does not admit any non-singular hypersurface model over . Finally, we obtain a theoretical result to describe all the twists of smooth hypersurfaces with cyclic automorphism group having a model defined over whose automorphism group is generated by a diagonal matrix.
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@article{arxiv.1804.06118,
title = {Hypersurface model-fields of definition for smooth hypersurfaces and their twists},
author = {Eslam Badr and Francesc Bars},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.06118},
year = {2018}
}