Non-split fibre conjecture for families of varieties

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Let FF be a number field, let XX satisfy the stated assumptions, and let HH be an anticanonical height function on XX. Let π:YX\pi:Y\to X be a non-singular proper faithfully flat morphism with geometrically integral generic fibre and reduced fibres over codimension-one points. Assume that Y(F)Y(F) is Zariski dense and that, outside a Zariski closed subset of XX, all fibres satisfy the Hasse principle. Call a fibre non-split if it does not contain a geometrically integral open subscheme. Non-split fibre conjecture. There exists a codimension-one point DXD\in X whose fibre π1(D)\pi^{-1}(D) is non-split if and only if, for every sufficiently small Zariski open subset UXU\subset X,

N(U,H,π,B)=o(N(U,H,B)).N(U,H,\pi,B)=o\bigl(N(U,H,B)\bigr).

The conjecture proposes that the quantitative scarcity of rational fibres is governed by non-split codimension-one fibres. The supplied text gives no resolution evidence.

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Daniel Loughran, “The number of varieties in a family which contain a rational point”, arXiv:1310.6219 (2016).

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