Quartic del Pezzo surfaces over $\mathbb{F}_p(t)$ without quadratic points
Number Theory
2026-02-26 v1 Algebraic Geometry
Abstract
We construct an infinite family of quartic del Pezzo surfaces over with no quadratic points, for all primes . This answers a question of Colliot--Th\'el\`ene, Creutz and Viray in the negative, which asks whether every quartic del Pezzo surface has quadratic points over fields. We exhibit a Brauer--Manin obstruction on the variety parametrising lines associated to the quartic del Pezzo surface.
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@article{arxiv.2602.21861,
title = {Quartic del Pezzo surfaces over $\mathbb{F}_p(t)$ without quadratic points},
author = {Giorgio Navone and Katerina Santicola and Harry C. Shaw and Haowen Zhang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.21861},
year = {2026}
}
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