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Transcendental Brauer groups of cubic generalised Kummer surfaces

Number Theory 2025-09-30 v2 Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

Given a cubic curve CC over a number field, we consider the K3 surface YCY_C constructed as the minimal desingularisation of the quotient of C×CC \times C by an automorphism of order 3. We relate the transcendental Brauer groups of YCY_C and C×CC \times C, allowing us to explicitly compute the former group in the case of a diagonal cubic curve defined over Q\mathbb{Q}. We obtain conjectural insight on the existence of Galois cubic points over Q\mathbb{Q} for everywhere locally soluble diagonal cubic curves.

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@article{arxiv.2506.16372,
  title  = {Transcendental Brauer groups of cubic generalised Kummer surfaces},
  author = {Giorgio Navone},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.16372},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

Fixed mistake in the definition of $S'$ in Section 3.2, results unchanged