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Rational curves on cubic hypersurfaces over finite fields

Number Theory 2018-04-17 v1

Abstract

Given a smooth cubic hypersurface XX over a finite field of characteristic greater than 3 and two generic points on XX, we use a function field analogue of the Hardy-Littlewood circle method to obtain an asymptotic formula for the number of degree dd rational curves on XX passing through those two points. We use this to deduce the dimension and irreducibility of the moduli space parametrising such curves, for large enough dd.

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@article{arxiv.1804.05643,
  title  = {Rational curves on cubic hypersurfaces over finite fields},
  author = {Adelina Mânzăţeanu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.05643},
  year   = {2018}
}

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27 pages

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