Odd order obstructions to the Hasse principle on general K3 surfaces
Abstract
We show that odd order transcendental elements of the Brauer group of a K3 surface can obstruct the Hasse principle. We exhibit a general K3 surface of degree 2 over together with a three torsion Brauer class that is unramified at all primes except for 3, but ramifies at all 3-adic points of . Motivated by Hodge theory, the pair is constructed from a cubic fourfold of discriminant 18 birational to a fibration into sextic del Pezzo surfaces over the projective plane. Notably, our construction does not rely on the presence of a central simple algebra representative for . Instead, we prove that a sufficient condition for such a Brauer class to obstruct the Hasse principle is insolubility of the fourfold (and hence the fibers) over and local solubility at all other primes.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1808.00879,
title = {Odd order obstructions to the Hasse principle on general K3 surfaces},
author = {Jennifer Berg and Anthony Várilly-Alvarado},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.00879},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
22 pages; Magma scripts included as ancillary files in the arXiv distribution