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Quadratic points on double planes

Number Theory 2025-11-04 v1 Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

Zariski dense collections of quadratic points on curves XX are well-understood by results of Harris--Silverman and Vojta, but when dimX2\dim X \geq 2 there is not an analogous geometric characterization, even conjecturally. In this note we consider the case of a double cover π ⁣:XPr\pi \colon X \to \mathbb{P}^r, where Hilbert's Irreducibility Theorem implies that the quadratic points in the fibers of π\pi are dense. We show that Vojta's Conjecture implies that, once the canonical bundle of XX is sufficiently positive, there are no other sources of Zariski dense quadratic points. This is complemented by several examples of surfaces XP2X \to \mathbb{P}^2 with an additional source of dense quadratic points.

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@article{arxiv.2511.01669,
  title  = {Quadratic points on double planes},
  author = {Nathan Chen and Ben Church and Hector Pasten and Isabel Vogt},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.01669},
  year   = {2025}
}

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10 pages

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