Browning–Heath-Brown–Salberger's rational-point conjecture for integral varieties

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Let Z⊂PNZ\subset\mathbb{P}^N be an integral variety of degree d≥2d\geq 2 and dimension mm. For a rational point x=[x]∈PN(Q)x=[\mathbf{x}]\in\mathbb{P}^N(\mathbb{Q}), represented by a primitive integer vector, let H(x)=∣x∣H(x)=|\mathbf{x}|, and define

NZ(B)=#{x∈Z∩PN(Q):H(x)≤B}.N_Z(B)=\#\{x\in Z\cap\mathbb{P}^N(\mathbb{Q}):H(x)\leq B\}.

Browning–Heath-Brown–Salberger's conjecture. For every ε>0\varepsilon>0,

NZ(B)=Od,ε,N(Bm+ε).N_Z(B)=O_{d,\varepsilon,N}(B^{m+\varepsilon}).

This generalizes the hypersurface conjecture to arbitrary integral projective varieties and predicts a uniform bound of essentially the dimension-sized exponent. The paper formulates it as an extension of the preceding conjecture; its resolution status is not specified in the supplied text.

References

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T. D. Browning, D. R. Heath-Brown and P. Salberger, “Counting rational points on algebraic varieties”, arXiv:math/0410117 (2005).

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