Peyre's leading-constant formula for weak Fano varieties

Let VV be a smooth weak Fano variety over a number field FF, let ΓF\Gamma_F be the absolute Galois group, and write ρ(V)=rk((PicV)ΓF)\rho(V)=\operatorname{rk}((\operatorname{Pic}\overline V)^{\Gamma_F}). Let Ceff1(V)C_{\operatorname{eff}}^1(\overline V) be the effective cone in PicVZR\operatorname{Pic}\overline V\otimes_{\mathbb Z}\mathbb R, and define

Ceff1,ΓF(V):=Ceff1(V)((PicV)ΓFZR).C_{\operatorname{eff}}^{1,\Gamma_F}(\overline V):=C_{\operatorname{eff}}^1(\overline V)\cap\left((\operatorname{Pic}\overline V)^{\Gamma_F}\otimes_{\mathbb Z}\mathbb R\right).

Let Ceff1,ΓF(V)C_{\operatorname{eff}}^{1,\Gamma_F}(\overline V)^\vee be its dual cone, let KVK_{\overline V} be the canonical class, and let ω\omega be the Tamagawa measure on V(AF)V(\mathbb A_F). Peyre's constant formula. The leading constant is

cV,F=α(V)β(V)τ(V),c_{V,F}=\alpha(V)\beta(V)\tau(V),

where

α(V):=1(ρ(V)1)!Ceff1,ΓF(V)eKV,ydy,\alpha(V):=\frac{1}{(\rho(V)-1)!}\int_{C_{\operatorname{eff}}^{1,\Gamma_F}(\overline V)^\vee}e^{-\langle K_{\overline V},y\rangle}\,dy, β(V):=#H1(F,PicV),τ(V):=ω(V(AF)BrVF).\beta(V):=\#H^1(F,\operatorname{Pic}\overline V),\qquad \tau(V):=\omega\bigl(V(\mathbb A_F)^{\operatorname{Br}V_F}\bigr).

This gives the explicit factorization predicted for the constant in the Manin–Peyre conjecture. The surrounding text attributes the formula to Peyre and notes that the beta factor appeared later in work of Batyrev–Tschinkel and Salberger.

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Francesca Balestrieri, Kevin Destagnol, Julian Lyczak, Jennifer Park and Nick Rome, “Counting quadratic points on Fano varieties”, arXiv:2505.17940 (2025).

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