Heath-Brown's rational point density conjecture for hypersurfaces

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Let F∈Z[x1,…,xn]F\in\mathbb{Z}[x_1,\ldots,x_n] be an absolutely irreducible form of degree d⩾2d\geqslant 2, and let XF⊂Pn−1X_F\subset\mathbb{P}^{n-1} be the hypersurface defined by FF. For P⩾1P\geqslant 1, write

NXF(P)=#{x∈XF∩Pn−1(Q):H(x)⩽P},N_{X_F}(P)=\#\{x\in X_F\cap\mathbb{P}^{n-1}(\mathbb{Q}): H(x)\leqslant P\},

where H(x)H(x) is the projective height. Heath-Brown's conjecture. For every ε>0\varepsilon>0,

NXF(P)=Od,ε,n(Pn−2+ε).N_{X_F}(P)=O_{d,\varepsilon,n}(P^{n-2+\varepsilon}).

This conjecture predicts the expected upper bound for rational points of bounded height on an absolutely irreducible hypersurface, uniformly in the degree, number of variables and error parameter. The source does not state whether the conjecture is resolved in this generality.

References

Primary source

T. D. Browning, “Counting rational points on cubic hypersurfaces”, arXiv:0707.2296 (2008).

Additional references

3 papers in this index state this conjecture (2004–2007). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:math/0505186, arXiv:math/0404456.

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