Existence and density problems in Diophantine geometry: From norm forms to Campana points

Shute AL. 2022. Existence and density problems in Diophantine geometry: From norm forms to Campana points. Institute of Science and Technology Austria.

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In this thesis, we study two of the most important questions in Arithmetic geometry: that of the existence and density of solutions to Diophantine equations. In order for a Diophantine equation to have any solutions over the rational numbers, it must have solutions everywhere locally, i.e., over R and over Qp for every prime p. The converse, called the Hasse principle, is known to fail in general. However, it is still a central question in Arithmetic geometry to determine for which varieties the Hasse principle does hold. In this work, we establish the Hasse principle for a wide new family of varieties of the form f(t) = NK/Q(x) ̸= 0, where f is a polynomial with integer coefficients and NK/Q denotes the norm form associated to a number field K. Our results cover products of arbitrarily many linear, quadratic or cubic factors, and generalise an argument of Irving [69], which makes use of the beta sieve of Rosser and Iwaniec. We also demonstrate how our main sieve results can be applied to treat new cases of a conjecture of Harpaz and Wittenberg on locally split values of polynomials over number fields, and discuss consequences for rational points in fibrations. In the second question, about the density of solutions, one defines a height function and seeks to estimate asymptotically the number of points of height bounded by B as B → ∞. Traditionally, one either counts rational points, or integral points with respect to a suitable model. However, in this thesis, we study an emerging area of interest in Arithmetic geometry known as Campana points, which in some sense interpolate between rational and integral points. More precisely, we count the number of nonzero integers z1, z2, z3 such that gcd(z1, z2, z3) = 1, and z1, z2, z3, z1 + z2 + z3 are all squareful and bounded by B. Using the circle method, we obtain an asymptotic formula which agrees in the power of B and log B with a bold new generalisation of Manin’s conjecture to the setting of Campana points, recently formulated by Pieropan, Smeets, Tanimoto and Várilly-Alvarado [96]. However, in this thesis we also provide the first known counterexamples to leading constant predicted by their conjecture.
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2022-09-08
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I acknowledge the received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska Curie Grant Agreement No. 665385.
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Shute AL. Existence and density problems in Diophantine geometry: From norm forms to Campana points. 2022. doi:10.15479/at:ista:12072
Shute, A. L. (2022). Existence and density problems in Diophantine geometry: From norm forms to Campana points. Institute of Science and Technology Austria. https://doi.org/10.15479/at:ista:12072
Shute, Alec L. “Existence and Density Problems in Diophantine Geometry: From Norm Forms to Campana Points.” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2022. https://doi.org/10.15479/at:ista:12072.
A. L. Shute, “Existence and density problems in Diophantine geometry: From norm forms to Campana points,” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2022.
Shute AL. 2022. Existence and density problems in Diophantine geometry: From norm forms to Campana points. Institute of Science and Technology Austria.
Shute, Alec L. Existence and Density Problems in Diophantine Geometry: From Norm Forms to Campana Points. Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2022, doi:10.15479/at:ista:12072.
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