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Rational points in a family of conics over $\mathbb{F}_2(t)$

Number Theory 2025-09-05 v2

Abstract

Serre famously showed that almost all plane conics over Q\mathbb{Q} have no rational point. We investigate versions of this over global function fields, focusing on a specific family of conics over F2(t)\mathbb{F}_2(t) which illustrates new behaviour. We obtain an asymptotic formula using harmonic analysis, which requires a Tauberian theorem over function fields for Dirichlet series with branch point singularities.

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@article{arxiv.2412.14693,
  title  = {Rational points in a family of conics over $\mathbb{F}_2(t)$},
  author = {Daniel Loughran and Judith Ortmann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.14693},
  year   = {2025}
}

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