2024/05/10 by Lea Beneish, Beneish, Lea, Christopher Keyes +1 · 1 citation
Mathematics · Computer Science · #Mathematics and Applications #Algebraic Geometry and Number Theory #Polynomial and algebraic computation
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2405.06584
A cubic hypersurface in ℙn defined over ℚ is given by the vanishing locus of a cubic form f in n+1 variables. It is conjectured that when n ≥ 4, such cubic hypersurfaces satisfy the Hasse principle. This is now known to hold on average due to recent work of Browning, Le Boudec, and Sawin. Using this result, we determine the proportion of cubic hypersurfaces in ℙn, ordered by the height of f, with a rational point for n ≥ 4 explicitly as a product over primes p of rational functions in p. In particular, this proportion is equal to 1 for cubic hypersurfaces in ℙn for n ≥ 9; for 100% of cubic hypersurfaces, this recovers a celebrated result of Heath-Brown that non-singular cubic forms in at least 10 variables have rational zeros. In the n=3 case, we give a precise conjecture for the proportion of cubic surfaces in ℙ3 with a rational point.