The Brauer-Manin obstruction for constant curves over global function fields
Number Theory
2021-12-14 v2 Algebraic Geometry
Abstract
Let be a finite field and smooth, geometrically irreducible proper curves over and set . We consider Brauer-Manin and abelian descent obstructions to the existence of rational points and to weak approximation for the curve . In particular, we show that Brauer-Manin is the only obstruction to weak approximation and the Hasse principle in the case that the genus of is less than that of . We also show that we can identify the points corresponding to non-constant maps using Frobenius descents.
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@article{arxiv.1909.10102,
title = {The Brauer-Manin obstruction for constant curves over global function fields},
author = {Brendan Creutz and José Felipe Voloch},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.10102},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
v2: Corrected an error in the proof of Lemma 3.2