The Brauer–Manin zero-cycle conjecture for smooth projective varieties

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Let XX be a smooth, projective, geometrically integral variety over a number field kk. Let

X(Ak)Br⁡X({\bf A}_k)^{\operatorname{Br}}

denote the Brauer–Manin set of adelic points orthogonal to Br⁡(X)\operatorname{Br}(X), and let I(X)I(X) be the index of XX, namely the greatest common divisor of the degrees of closed points of XX.

Brauer–Manin zero-cycle conjecture. If X(Ak)Br⁡X({\bf A}_k)^{\operatorname{Br}} is non-empty, then I(X)=1I(X)=1.

The analogous assertion for rational points is false for arbitrary smooth projective varieties, but this weaker zero-cycle statement remains open in general.

References

Primary source

Jean-Louis Colliot-Thélène, Federico Scavia and Alexei Skorobogatov, “Zero-cycles on surfaces dominated by products of hyperelliptic curves”, arXiv:2607.18906 (2026).

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