Colliot-Thélène's conjecture on rationally connected varieties
Colliot-Thélène's conjecture on rationally connected varieties
Let be a number field, let be the set of places of , and write . For a smooth -variety , let denote its unramified Brauer group and let be the left kernel of the Brauer–Manin pairing.
Colliot-Thélène's conjecture. Let be a rationally connected smooth variety over . Then is dense in .
This conjecture predicts that rational connectedness, together with the absence of a Brauer–Manin obstruction, controls the existence and approximation of rational points. It would imply important arithmetic consequences, including a positive answer to the inverse Galois problem via versal torsors. Its status is not resolved in the supplied source.
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Primary source
Yisheng Tian, “A Simpler Approach to a Descent Conjecture of Wittenberg”, arXiv:2604.08146 (2026).
Additional references
13 papers in this index state this conjecture (2010–2026). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2506.02600, arXiv:2506.22980, arXiv:2302.13719, arXiv:2206.13832, arXiv:2010.12555, arXiv:1911.09623, arXiv:1805.12538, arXiv:1804.05819, arXiv:1802.09605, arXiv:1604.08543, arXiv:1404.3641, arXiv:1006.2572.
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