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Modularity of two double covers of ${\mathbb P}^5$ branched along $12$ hyperplanes

Number Theory 2021-12-28 v4 Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

For two varieties of dimension 55 constructed as double covers of P5{\mathbb P}^5 branched along the union of 1212 hyperplanes, we prove that the number of points over Fp{\mathbb F}_p can be expressed in terms of Artin symbols and the ppth Fourier coefficients of modular forms. Many analogous results are known in dimension 3\le 3, but very few in higher dimension. In addition, we use an idea of Burek to construct quotients of our varieties for which the point counts mod pp are expressible in terms of Artin symbols and the coefficients of a single modular form of weight 66.

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@article{arxiv.1811.02739,
  title  = {Modularity of two double covers of ${\mathbb P}^5$ branched along $12$ hyperplanes},
  author = {Adam Logan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.02739},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

Further revision according to referees' comments. No new results