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The geometric exceptional set in Manin's conjecture for Batyrev and Tschinkel's example

Algebraic Geometry 2024-12-02 v3 Number Theory

Abstract

Batyrev and Tschinkel's example is a Fermat cubic surface bundle XX which is a Fano 55-fold. It is the first example for which Manin's conjecture can never hold for a proper closed exceptional set. Recently, Lehmann, Sengupta, and Tanimoto proposed a conjectural geometric description of the exceptional set in Manin's conjecture and showed that it is always contained in a thin set. Over a field of characteristic 00, we explicitly construct finitely many thin maps such that any thin map f:YXf:Y\rightarrow X with equal or larger aa- and bb-values in lexicographical order factors rationally through one of them. In particular, this defines a thin set which coincides with Lehmann-Sengupta-Tanimoto's conjectural exceptional set.

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@article{arxiv.2311.04138,
  title  = {The geometric exceptional set in Manin's conjecture for Batyrev and Tschinkel's example},
  author = {Runxuan Gao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.04138},
  year   = {2024}
}

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27 pages, minor revision, final version