We will look at the arithmitic properties of cubic surfaces. The main focus will be on 27 the lines and the Galois action on them.Different descriptions of the moduli space of cubic surfaces are used to construct several Galois groups.Finally we will inspect the Manin conjecture for these surfaces.
The goal of this talk is to report on a project to compute the Picard rank for certain K3 surfaces. The methods are based on reduction modulo p. They will be explained in some detail and examples will be given.At the end of the talk, a statistical test will be presented showing that for each K3 surface in two large samples, suitable primes may be found and the Picard rank may be determined. The samples are motivated by classical families considered by 19th century geometers.
Il s'agit d'un travail en commun avec Olivier Wittenberg.
In this talk I will report on progress on the following two questions, the first posed by Cassels in 1961 and the second considered by Bashmakov in 1974. The first question is whether the elements of the Tate-Shafarevich group are infinitely divisible when considered as elements of the Weil-Châtelet group. The second question concerns the intersection of the Tate-Shafarevich group with the maximal divisible subgroup of the Weil-Chatelet group. This is joint work with Mirela Ciperiani.
La conjecture de torsion prédit que si k est un corps de nombre etA une variété abélienne sur k alors l'ordre du sous-groupe de torsion deA(k) est borné par une constante ne dépendant que du degré de k sur Q etde la dimension de A.Cette conjecture n'est connue que pour les courbes elliptiques: Manin l'amontré en 69 pour les l-Sylow de la torsion (l:premier) puis Mazur (77),Kamienny (92), Merel (96) ont réussi a compléter la preuve en analysant lastructure des courbes modulaires X_{0}(l) (l:premier).Que les courbes elliptiques soient (essentiellement) classifiées […]
In this talk we consider the problem of counting the number of rational points of bounded height on certain intersections of two quadrics in five variables.These are del Pezzo surfaces of degree four, and we focus on the case where the surface has a conic bundle structure.
In this talk, I will explain how one can determine the asymptotic behaviour of the number of integral points on the hyperplane X_0+ ... +X_n=0 for which each coordinate is a squareful number using the classical circle method, given that n>= 4. I will also indicate how this result improves our intuition when considering the problem with only three squareful numbers.
Let C be a smooth plane cubic curve over the rationals. TheMordell--Weil Theorem can be restated as follows: there is a finitesubset B of rational points such that all rational points can beobtained from this subset by successive tangent and secantconstructions. It is conjectured that a minimal such B can bearbitrarily large
J'expliquerai un travail en commun avec Goulwen Fichou, qui consiste à mettre en place un anneau de Grothendieck K_0(BSA_R) des formules semi-algébriques grâce auquel on peut définir, sur le modèle complexe, des fonctions zêta motiviques de singularités réelles. On montre que ces fonctions zêtas sont rationnelles et que leur expression rationnelle définit des fibres de Milnor motiviques des singularités réelles. Il s'agit d'éléments de l'anneau K_0(BSA_R)otimes Z dont on montre qu'ils se réalisent, via le morphisme caractéristique d'Euler, sur la caractéristique d'Euler des fibres de Milnor ensemblistes correspondantes.
In a general set-up for non-archimedean geometry, we show how local Lipschitz continuity implies piecewise Lipschitz continuity (globally on the whole piece) for definable functions. This is joint work with G. Comte and F. Loeser which generalizes previous work by the same three authors for a fixed p-adic field in and which fits in a broader program at the interplay of arithmetic and non-archimedean geometry.
Let K/k be an extension of number fields, and let P(t) be a quadratic polynomial over k. Let X be the affine variety defined by P(t) = N_{K/k}(z). We study the Hasse principle and weak approximation for X in two cases. For =4 and P(t) irreducible over k and split in K, we prove the Hasse principle and weak approximation. For k=Q with arbitrary K, we show that the Brauer-Manin obstruction to the Hasse principle and weak approximation is the only one.
