Higher Dimensional Varieties and Rational Points

Higher Dimensional Varieties and Rational Points
Author: Károly Jr. Böröczky
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 307
Release: 2013-12-11
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 3662051230

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Exploring the connections between arithmetic and geometric properties of algebraic varieties has been the object of much fruitful study for a long time, especially in the case of curves. The aim of the Summer School and Conference on "Higher Dimensional Varieties and Rational Points" held in Budapest, Hungary during September 2001 was to bring together students and experts from the arithmetic and geometric sides of algebraic geometry in order to get a better understanding of the current problems, interactions and advances in higher dimension. The lecture series and conference lectures assembled in this volume give a comprehensive introduction to students and researchers in algebraic geometry and in related fields to the main ideas of this rapidly developing area.

Arithmetic of Higher-Dimensional Algebraic Varieties

Arithmetic of Higher-Dimensional Algebraic Varieties
Author: Bjorn Poonen
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0817681701

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This text offers a collection of survey and research papers by leading specialists in the field documenting the current understanding of higher dimensional varieties. Recently, it has become clear that ideas from many branches of mathematics can be successfully employed in the study of rational and integral points. This book will be very valuable for researchers from these various fields who have an interest in arithmetic applications, specialists in arithmetic geometry itself, and graduate students wishing to pursue research in this area.

Rational Points on Algebraic Varieties

Rational Points on Algebraic Varieties
Author: Emmanuel Peyre
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Total Pages: 455
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 3034883684

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This book is devoted to the study of rational and integral points on higher-dimensional algebraic varieties. It contains carefully selected research papers addressing the arithmetic geometry of varieties which are not of general type, with an emphasis on how rational points are distributed with respect to the classical, Zariski and adelic topologies. The present volume gives a glimpse of the state of the art of this rapidly expanding domain in arithmetic geometry. The techniques involve explicit geometric constructions, ideas from the minimal model program in algebraic geometry as well as analytic number theory and harmonic analysis on adelic groups.

Rational Points on Varieties

Rational Points on Varieties
Author: Bjorn Poonen
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2017-12-13
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1470437732

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This book is motivated by the problem of determining the set of rational points on a variety, but its true goal is to equip readers with a broad range of tools essential for current research in algebraic geometry and number theory. The book is unconventional in that it provides concise accounts of many topics instead of a comprehensive account of just one—this is intentionally designed to bring readers up to speed rapidly. Among the topics included are Brauer groups, faithfully flat descent, algebraic groups, torsors, étale and fppf cohomology, the Weil conjectures, and the Brauer-Manin and descent obstructions. A final chapter applies all these to study the arithmetic of surfaces. The down-to-earth explanations and the over 100 exercises make the book suitable for use as a graduate-level textbook, but even experts will appreciate having a single source covering many aspects of geometry over an unrestricted ground field and containing some material that cannot be found elsewhere.

Rational Points, Rational Curves, and Entire Holomorphic Curves on Projective Varieties

Rational Points, Rational Curves, and Entire Holomorphic Curves on Projective Varieties
Author: Carlo Gasbarri
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2015-12-22
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1470414589

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This volume contains papers from the Short Thematic Program on Rational Points, Rational Curves, and Entire Holomorphic Curves and Algebraic Varieties, held from June 3-28, 2013, at the Centre de Recherches Mathématiques, Université de Montréal, Québec, Canada. The program was dedicated to the study of subtle interconnections between geometric and arithmetic properties of higher-dimensional algebraic varieties. The main areas of the program were, among others, proving density of rational points in Zariski or analytic topology on special varieties, understanding global geometric properties of rationally connected varieties, as well as connections between geometry and algebraic dynamics exploring new geometric techniques in Diophantine approximation. This book is co-published with the Centre de Recherches Mathématiques.

Higher-Dimensional Geometry Over Finite Fields

Higher-Dimensional Geometry Over Finite Fields
Author: D. Kaledin
Publisher: IOS Press
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2008-06-05
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1607503255

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Number systems based on a finite collection of symbols, such as the 0s and 1s of computer circuitry, are ubiquitous in the modern age. Finite fields are the most important such number systems, playing a vital role in military and civilian communications through coding theory and cryptography. These disciplines have evolved over recent decades, and where once the focus was on algebraic curves over finite fields, recent developments have revealed the increasing importance of higher-dimensional algebraic varieties over finite fields. The papers included in this publication introduce the reader to recent developments in algebraic geometry over finite fields with particular attention to applications of geometric techniques to the study of rational points on varieties over finite fields of dimension of at least 2.

Brauer Groups, Tamagawa Measures, and Rational Points on Algebraic Varieties

Brauer Groups, Tamagawa Measures, and Rational Points on Algebraic Varieties
Author: Jorg Jahnel
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2014-12-02
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1470418827

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The central theme of this book is the study of rational points on algebraic varieties of Fano and intermediate type--both in terms of when such points exist and, if they do, their quantitative density. The book consists of three parts. In the first part, the author discusses the concept of a height and formulates Manin's conjecture on the asymptotics of rational points on Fano varieties. The second part introduces the various versions of the Brauer group. The author explains why a Brauer class may serve as an obstruction to weak approximation or even to the Hasse principle. This part includes two sections devoted to explicit computations of the Brauer-Manin obstruction for particular types of cubic surfaces. The final part describes numerical experiments related to the Manin conjecture that were carried out by the author together with Andreas-Stephan Elsenhans. The book presents the state of the art in computational arithmetic geometry for higher-dimensional algebraic varieties and will be a valuable reference for researchers and graduate students interested in that area.

Birational Geometry, Rational Curves, and Arithmetic

Birational Geometry, Rational Curves, and Arithmetic
Author: Fedor Bogomolov
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2013-05-17
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 146146482X

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​​​​This book features recent developments in a rapidly growing area at the interface of higher-dimensional birational geometry and arithmetic geometry. It focuses on the geometry of spaces of rational curves, with an emphasis on applications to arithmetic questions. Classically, arithmetic is the study of rational or integral solutions of diophantine equations and geometry is the study of lines and conics. From the modern standpoint, arithmetic is the study of rational and integral points on algebraic varieties over nonclosed fields. A major insight of the 20th century was that arithmetic properties of an algebraic variety are tightly linked to the geometry of rational curves on the variety and how they vary in families. This collection of solicited survey and research papers is intended to serve as an introduction for graduate students and researchers interested in entering the field, and as a source of reference for experts working on related problems. Topics that will be addressed include: birational properties such as rationality, unirationality, and rational connectedness, existence of rational curves in prescribed homology classes, cones of rational curves on rationally connected and Calabi-Yau varieties, as well as related questions within the framework of the Minimal Model Program.