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 have no rational point. We investigate versions of this over global function fields, focusing on a specific family of conics over 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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19 pages