Serre's problem for multiple conics
Number Theory
2025-05-01 v1
Abstract
We prove the refined Loughran--Smeets conjecture of Loughran--Rome--Sofos for a wide class of varieties arising as products of conic bundles. One interesting feature of our varieties is that the subordinate Brauer group may be arbitrarily large. As an application of our methods, we answer a question of Lenstra by giving an asymptotic for the triples of integers for which the R\'edei symbol takes a given value. We also make significant progress on a question of Serre on the zero loci of systems of quaternion algebras defined over .
Cite
@article{arxiv.2504.21792,
title = {Serre's problem for multiple conics},
author = {Stephanie Chan and Peter Koymans and Nick Rome},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.21792},
year = {2025}
}