English

Solvable points on intersections of quadrics, cubics, and quartics

Algebraic Geometry 2025-08-04 v1 Number Theory

Abstract

Let kk be a field of characteristic not 2 or 3. We establish polynomial lower bounds on the ambient dimension NN for an intersection XPNX\subset\mathbb{P}^N of quadrics, cubics and quartics to have a dense collection of solvable points, i.e. points in X(kSol)X(k^{\mathsf{Sol}}) where kSol/kk^{\mathsf{Sol}}/k is a solvable closure. Our method connects the classical theory of polar hypersurfaces, as redeveloped by Sutherland, to Fano varieties F(j,X)\mathcal{F}(j,X) of jj-dimensional linear subspaces on XX, and we use this to obtain improved control on the arithmetic of F(j,X)\mathcal{F}(j,X).

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@article{arxiv.2508.00215,
  title  = {Solvable points on intersections of quadrics, cubics, and quartics},
  author = {Claudio Gómez-Gonzáles and Jesse Wolfson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.00215},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

15 pages. Comments welcome

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