Manin's conjecture for rational points on singular Del Pezzo surfaces

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Let SS be a Del Pezzo surface over Q\mathbb{Q} with at most rational double points, and let S∘⊂SS^\circ\subset S be a dense open subset in the Zariski topology. Let −KS-K_S denote the anticanonical divisor, let N(S∘,−KS,B)N(S^\circ,-K_S,B) count rational points of S∘S^\circ of anticanonical height at most BB, and let rr be the rank of the Picard group of the minimal desingularization S~\widetilde S of SS over Q\mathbb{Q}. Manin's conjecture. There exists such an S∘S^\circ for which

N(S∘,−KS,B)∼cS,H⋅B(log⁡B)r−1N(S^\circ,-K_S,B)\sim c_{S,H}\cdot B(\log B)^{r-1}

as B→∞B\to\infty. This is the expected asymptotic formula for rational points on Del Pezzo surfaces, with a positive constant determined by the surface and the height; the statement is presented as a conjecture in the source, and its general validity remains open.

References

Primary source

Ulrich Derenthal and Yuri Tschinkel, “Universal torsors over Del Pezzo surfaces and rational points”, arXiv:math/0604193 (2006).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2005–2006). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:math/0511041.

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