Z\'ero-cycles sur les surfaces de del Pezzo (Variations sur un th\`eme de Daniel Coray)
Abstract
In 1974, D. Coray showed that on a smooth cubic surface with a closed point of degree prime to 3 there exists such a point of degree 1, 4 or 10. We first show how a combination of generisation, specialisation, Bertini theorems and large fields avoids considerations of special cases in his argument. For smooth cubic surfaces with a rational point, we show that any zero-cycle of degree at least 10 is rationally equivalent to an effective cycle. We establish analogues of these results for del Pezzo surfaces of degree 2 and of degree 1. For smooth cubic surfaces without a rational point, we relate the question whether there exists a degree 3 point which is not on a line to the question whether rational points are dense on a del Pezzo surface of degree 1. ---- Une surface cubique lisse qui poss\`ede un point ferm\'e de degr\'e premier \`a 3 poss\`ede un tel point de degr\'e 1, 4 ou 10 (Coray, 1974). Un m\'elange de g\'en\'erisation, de sp\'ecialisation, de th\'eor\`emes de Bertini et d'utilisation des corps fertiles donne de la souplesse \`a sa m\'ethode. Pour les surfaces cubiques avec un point rationnel, on montre que tout z\'ero-cycle de degr\'e au moins 10 est rationnellement \'equivalent \`a un z\'ero-cycle effectif. On \'etablit l'analogue de ces r\'esultats pour les surfaces de del Pezzo de degr\'e 2 et de degr\'e 1. On discute l'existence de points ferm\'es de degr\'e 3 non align\'es sur une surface cubique sans point rationnel. On la relie \`a la question de la densit\'e des points rationnels sur une surface de del Pezzo de degr\'e 1.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2005.06876,
title = {Z\'ero-cycles sur les surfaces de del Pezzo (Variations sur un th\`eme de Daniel Coray)},
author = {Jean-Louis Colliot-Thélène},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.06876},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
27 pages, in French. In Version v3, the introduction has been expanded to put the results into perspective. For arbitrary geometrically rational surfaces, two general effectivity results for zero cycles are now given, with bounds simple functions of the square of the canonical class. To appear in L'Enseignement math\'ematique