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The Brauer-Manin obstruction on a general diagonal quartic surface

Number Theory 2011-08-03 v2 Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

We prove that, on a sufficiently general diagonal quartic surface, there is a non-trivial Brauer group but no Brauer-Manin obstruction to the existence of rational points.

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@article{arxiv.1008.0999,
  title  = {The Brauer-Manin obstruction on a general diagonal quartic surface},
  author = {Martin Bright},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1008.0999},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

9 pages; added a counterexample

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