English

On the fibration method for zero-cycles and rational points

Number Theory 2016-03-29 v4 Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

Conjectures on the existence of zero-cycles on arbitrary smooth projective varieties over number fields were proposed by Colliot-Th\'el\`ene, Sansuc, Kato and Saito in the 1980's. We prove that these conjectures are compatible with fibrations, for fibrations into rationally connected varieties over a curve. In particular, they hold for the total space of families of homogeneous spaces of linear groups with connected geometric stabilisers. We prove the analogous result for rational points, conditionally on a conjecture on locally split values of polynomials which a recent work of Matthiesen establishes in the case of linear polynomials over the rationals.

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@article{arxiv.1409.0993,
  title  = {On the fibration method for zero-cycles and rational points},
  author = {Yonatan Harpaz and Olivier Wittenberg},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1409.0993},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

54 pages; v3: minor updates, added Remark 9.12(ii), v4: improved exposition, final version

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