Wooley's lower-bound conjecture for rational points on cubic hypersurfaces

Let n10n\geqslant 10 be an integer, let XPQn1X\subset \mathbf{P}_{\mathbf{Q}}^{n-1} be a cubic hypersurface, and let N(X,B)N(X,B) denote the number of rational points on XX counted with the height bound used in the source. Thus N(X,B)N(X,B) measures the distribution of rational points of XX up to height BB.

Wooley's conjecture. There exists a constant c>0c>0 depending only on XX such that

N(X,B)cBn9N(X,B)\geqslant cB^{n-9}

as BB\to\infty.

This is a quantitative strengthening of the folklore local-to-global conjecture and is motivated by examples with substantially fewer points than the probabilistic heuristic predicts. The source attributes the conjecture to T. D. Wooley; its status is not resolved in the supplied text.

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Primary source

V. Vinay Kumaraswamy and Nick Rome, “On a conjecture of Wooley and lower bounds for cubic hypersurfaces”, arXiv:2405.04234 (2024).

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