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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 Fp(t)\mathbb{F}_p(t) with no quadratic points, for all primes p2p\neq 2. 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 C2C_2 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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21 pages. Comments welcome!

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