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We construct a smooth and projective surface over an arbitrary number field that is a counterexample to the Hasse principle but has the infinite etale Brauer-Manin set. We also construct a surface with a unique rational point and the…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2013-11-25 Yonatan Harpaz , Alexei Skorobogatov

We report on our investigations concerning algebraic and transcendental Brauer-Manin obstructions to integral points on complements of a hyperplane section in degree four del Pezzo surfaces. We discuss moreover two concepts of an…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2017-07-28 Jörg Jahnel , Damaris Schindler

Following Bright and Newton, we construct an explicit K$3$ surface over the rational numbers having good reduction at 2, and for which 2 is the only prime at which weak approximation is obstructed.

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-01-30 Margherita Pagano

For integers $k$, we consider the affine cubic surface $V_{k}$ given by $M({\bf x})=x_{1}^2 + x_{2}^2 +x_{3}^2 -x_{1}x_{2}x_{3}=k$. We show that for almost all $k$ the Hasse Principle holds, namely that $V_{k}(\mathbb{Z})$ is non-empty if…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2022-05-31 Amit Ghosh , Peter Sarnak

The purpose of this article is twofold. On the one hand, we prove asymptotic formulas for the quantitative distribution of rational points on any smooth non-split projective quadratic surface. We obtain the optimal error term for the real…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-01-29 Zhizhong Huang , Damaris Schindler , Alec Shute

For an affine double plane defined by an equation of the form z^2 = f, we study the divisor class group and the Brauer group. Two cases are considered. In the first case, f is a product of n linear forms in k[x,y] and X is birational to a…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2016-12-05 Timothy J. Ford

Let $K$ be a global field of positive characteristic. We prove that the Brauer-Manin obstructions to the Hasse principle, to weak approximation and to strong approximation are the only ones for homogeneous spaces of reductive groups with…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2021-07-20 Cyril Demarche , David Harari

We introduce new `refined' obstructions to local-global principles for 0-cycles on algebraic varieties over number fields. Assuming finiteness of relevant Tate--Shafarevich groups, we show that the Hasse principle and weak approximation for…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Francesca Balestrieri , Anouk Greven , Rachel Newton , Soumya Sankar , Katerina Santicola , Manoy Trip

Quadric hypersurfaces are well-known to satisfy the Hasse principle. However, this is no longer true in the case of the Hasse principle for integral points, where counter-examples are known to exist in dimension 1 and 2. This work explores…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Vladimir Mitankin

Let $k$ be a number field. In the spirit of a result by Yongqi Liang, we relate the arithmetic of rational points over finite extensions of $k$ to that of zero-cycles over $k$ for Kummer varieties over $k$. For example, for any Kummer…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2023-03-10 Francesca Balestrieri , Rachel Newton

We prove that the Brauer-Manin obstruction is the only obstruction to the Hasse principle and to the weak approximation for zero-cycles on certain fibrations over a smooth curve or over the projective space. The principal novelty is that…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-03-12 Yongqi Liang

We exhibit central simple algebras over the function field of a diagonal quartic surface over the complex numbers that represent the 2-torsion part of its Brauer group. We investigate whether the 2-primary part of the Brauer group of a…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2009-11-09 Evis Ieronymou

We extend some parts of the representation theory for integral quadratic forms over the ring of integers of a number field to the case over the coordinate ring $k[C]$ of an affine curve $C$ over a general base field $k$. By using the genus…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-24 Yong Hu , Jing Liu , Yisheng Tian

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

We study equations in four variables (x,y,z,t) of the shape q(x,y,z)=P(t), where q(x,y,z) is an indefinite ternary quadratic form over the integers and P(t) is a polynomial in one variable with integral coefficients. If P(t) is not the…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2011-12-14 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 construct an Enriques surface X over Q with empty \'etale-Brauer set (and hence no rational points) for which there is no algebraic Brauer-Manin obstruction to the Hasse principle. In addition, if there is a transcendental obstruction on…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2011-03-29 Anthony Várilly-Alvarado , Bianca Viray

We describe a practical algorithm for computing Brauer-Manin obstructions to the existence of rational points on hyperelliptic curves defined over number fields. This offers advantages over descent based methods in that its correctness does…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2023-05-05 Brendan Creutz , Duttatrey Nath Srivastava

We study local-global principles for two notions of semi-integral points, termed Campana points and Darmon points. In particular, we develop a semi-integral version of the Brauer-Manin obstruction interpolating between Manin's classical…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-11-07 Vladimir Mitankin , Masahiro Nakahara , Sam Streeter

Let F be a number field, and let F\subset K be a field extension of degree n. Suppose that we are given 2r sufficiently general linear polynomials in r variables over F. Let X be the variety over F such that the F-points of X bijectively…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2017-05-17 Damaris Schindler , Alexei Skorobogatov