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Approximation theorems for algebraic stacks over a number field $k$ are studied in this article. For G a connected linear algebraic group over a number field we prove strong approximation with Brauer-Manin obstruction for the classifying…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-21 Ajneet Dhillon

This note gives an explicit example of transcendental Brauer-Manin obstruction to weak approximation. It has two features which the only previously known example of such obstruction did not have: the class in the Brauer group which is…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2016-03-29 Olivier Wittenberg

Since Poonen's construction of a variety $X$ defined over a number field $k$ for which $X(k)$ is empty and the \'etale Brauer--Manin set $X(\mathbf{A}_k)^\text{Br,et}$ is not, several other examples of smooth, projective varieties have been…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2015-12-09 Arne Smeets

We conjecture that if C is a curve of genus >1 over a number field k such that C(k) is empty, then a method of Scharaschkin (equivalent to the Brauer-Manin obstruction in the context of curves) supplies a proof that C(k) is empty. As…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2017-04-03 Bjorn Poonen

Let X be a smooth variety over a number field k embedded as a degree d subvariety of $\mathbb{P}^n$ and suppose that X is a counterexample to the Hasse principle explained by the Brauer-Manin obstruction. We consider the question of whether…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2019-02-13 Brendan Creutz , Bianca Viray

For varieties over global fields, weak approximation in the space of adelic points can fail. For a subvariety of an abelian variety one expects this failure is always explained by a finite descent obstruction, in the sense that the rational…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2023-09-11 Brendan Creutz

Let $k$ be a number field and let $T$ be a $k$-torus. Consider a fibration in torsors under $T$, i.e. a morphism $f: X \to \mathbb{P}^1_k$ from a smooth, projective $k$-variety $X$ to $\mathbb{P}^1_k$ such that the generic fibre $X_\eta \to…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Arne Smeets

We prove the vanishing of bounded cohomology with separable dual coefficients for many groups of interest in geometry, dynamics, and algebra. These include compactly supported structure-preserving diffeomorphism groups of certain manifolds;…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-30 Caterina Campagnolo , Francesco Fournier-Facio , Yash Lodha , Marco Moraschini

For rational points on algebraic varieties defined over a number field $K$, we study the behavior of the property of weak approximation with Brauer-Manin obstruction under extension of the ground field. We construct K-varieties accompanied…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2018-05-24 Yongqi Liang

For algebraic stacks over number fields, we define their Brauer-Manin sets, Brauer-Manin pairings, and extend the descent theory of Colliot-Th\'el\`ene and Sansuc. By extending Sansuc's exact sequence, we show the torsionness of Brauer…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-01 Chang Lv , Han Wu

For any pencil of conics or higher-dimensional quadrics over the rationals, with all degenerate fibres defined over the rationals, we show that the Brauer-Manin obstruction controls weak approximation. The proof is based on the Hasse…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2013-06-17 Tim Browning , Lilian Matthiesen , Alexei Skorobogatov

Let r > 0 be an integer. We present a sufficient condition for an abelian variety A over a number field k to have infinitely many quadratic twists of rank at least r, in terms of density properties of rational points on the Kummer variety…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2015-08-20 David Holmes , René Pannekoek

Let k be a number field. For a variety X over k that satisfies weak approximation with Brauer-Manin obstruction, we study the same property for smooth projective models of its symmetric products. Based on the same method, we also explore…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-06-01 Sheng Chen , Ziyang Zhang

We study the integral Brauer--Manin obstruction for affine diagonal cubic surfaces, which we employ to construct the first counterexamples to the integral Hasse principle in this setting. We then count in three natural ways how such…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Julian Lyczak , Vladimir Mitankin , H. Uppal

Let $K/k$ be an extension of number fields. We describe theoretical results and computational methods for calculating the obstruction to the Hasse norm principle for $K/k$ and the defect of weak approximation for the norm one torus…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2021-01-07 André Macedo , Rachel Newton

An integer may be represented by a quadratic form over each ring of p-adic integers and over the reals without being represented by this quadratic form over the integers. More generally, such failure of a local-global principle may occur…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2014-01-14 Jean-Louis Colliot-Thélène , Fei Xu

Recently Dasheng Wei proved that the Brauer-Manin obstruction is the only obstruction to the Hasse principle for 0-cycles of degree 1 on some fibrations over the projective line defined by bi-cyclic normic equations. In the present paper,…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-03-12 Yongqi Liang

We study the failure of the integral Hasse principle and strong approximation for the Erd\H{o}s-Straus conjecture using the Brauer-Manin obstruction.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2020-07-15 Martin Bright , Daniel Loughran

We describe descent on families of torsors of a constant torus. A recent result of Browning and Matthiesen then implies that the Brauer--Manin obstruction controls the Hasse principle and weak approximation when the ground field is the…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2013-12-31 Alexei N. Skorobogatov

A quasi-representation of a group is a map from the group into a matrix algebra (or similar object) that approximately satisfies the relations needed to be a representation. Work of many people starting with Kazhdan and Voiculescu, and…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-25 Rufus Willett