English

Quantitative arithmetic of diagonal degree $2$ K3 surfaces

Number Theory 2023-05-22 v2 Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

In this paper we study the existence of rational points for the family of K3 surfaces over Q\mathbb{Q} given by w2=A1x16+A2x26+A3x36.w^2 = A_1x_1^6 + A_2x_2^6 + A_3x_3^6. When the coefficients are ordered by height, we show that the Brauer group is almost always trivial, and find the exact order of magnitude of surfaces for which there is a Brauer-Manin obstruction to the Hasse principle. Our results show definitively that K3 surfaces can have a Brauer-Manin obstruction to the Hasse principle that is only explained by odd order torsion.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.1910.06257,
  title  = {Quantitative arithmetic of diagonal degree $2$ K3 surfaces},
  author = {Damián Gvirtz-Chen and Daniel Loughran and Masahiro Nakahara},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.06257},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

57 pages. To appear in Mathematische Annalen

R2 v1 2026-06-23T11:43:13.228Z