Manin's conjecture predicts the number of rational points of bounded height on a Fano variety. To make this prediction precise, it is necessary to remove a thin subset of rational points. Peyre has tentatively proposed replacing this subset by the set of points where a certain freeness function he defined takes small values. We show that this proposal fails in the case of $\operatorname{Hilb}^2(\mathbb P^n)$, because the usual thin subset, consisting of rational points that lift to a certain double cover, contains many points with relatively large freeness.
Let X be the wonderful compactification of a connected adjoint semisimple group G defined over a number field K. We prove Manin's conjecture on the asymptotic (as T\to \infty) of the number of K-rational points of X of height less than T, and give an explicit construction of a measure on X(A), generalizing Peyre's measure, which describes the asymptotic distribution of the rational points G(K) on X(A). Our approach is based on the mixing property of L^2(G(K)\G(A)) which we obtain with a rate of convergence.
Using recent work of the first author~\cite{Bet}, we prove a strong version of the Manin-Peyre's conjectures with a full asymptotic and a power-saving error term for the two varieties respectively in $\mathbb{P}^2 \times \mathbb{P}^2$ with bihomogeneous coordinates $[x_1:x_2:x_3],[y_1:y_2,y_3]$ and in $\mathbb{P}^1\times \mathbb{P}^1 \times \mathbb{P}^1$ with multihomogeneous coordinates $[x_1:y_1],[x_2:y_2],[x_3:y_3]$ defined by the same equation $x_1y_2y_3+x_2y_1y_3+x_3y_1y_2=0$. We thus improve on recent work of Blomer, Brüdern and Salberger \cite{BBS} and provide a different proof based on…
We prove Manin's conjecture for a singular cubic surface S with a singularity of type E6. If U is the open subset of S obtained by deleting the unique line from S, then the number of rational points in U with anticanonical height bounded by B behaves asymptotically as cB(log B)^6, where the constant c agrees with the one conjectured by Peyre.
For split smooth Del Pezzo surfaces, we analyse the structure of the effective cone and prove a recursive formula for the value of alpha, appearing in the leading constant as predicted by Peyre of Manin's conjecture on the number of rational points of bounded height on the surface. Furthermore, we calculate alpha for all singular Del Pezzo surfaces of degree at least 3.
We associate a certain tensor product lattice to any primitive integer lattice and ask about its typical shape. These lattices are related to the tangent bundle of Grassmannians and their study is motivated by Peyre's programme on "freeness" for rational points of bounded height on Fano varieties.
Following the line of attack from La Bretèche, Browning and Peyre, we prove Manin's conjecture in its strong form conjectured by Peyre for a family of Châtelet surfaces which are defined as minimal proper smooth models of affine surfaces of the form $$ Y^2-aZ^2=F(X,1), $$ where $a=-1$, $F \in \mathbb{Z}[x_1,x_2]$ is a polynomial of degree 4 whose factorisation into irreducibles contains two non proportional linear factors and a quadratic factor which is irreducible over $\mathbb{Q}[i]$. This result deals with the last remaining case of Manin's conjecture for Châtelet surfaces with $a=-1$ and e…
Inspired by a method of La Bretèche relying on some unique factorisation, we generalize work of Blomer, Brüdern, and Salberger to prove Manin's conjecture in its strong form conjectured by Peyre for some infinite family of varieties of higher dimension. The varieties under consideration in this paper correspond to the projective varieties defined by the following equation $$ x_1 y_2y_3\cdots y_n+x_2y_1y_3 \cdots y_n+ \cdots+x_n y_1 y_2 \cdots y_{n-1}=0. $$ in $\mathbb{P}^{2n-1}_{\mathbb{Q}}$ for all $n \geqslant 3$. This paper comes with an Appendix by Per Salberger.
We discuss Manin's conjecture concerning the distribution of rational points of bounded height on Del Pezzo surfaces, and its refinement by Peyre, and explain applications of universal torsors to counting problems. To illustrate the method, we provide a proof of Manin's conjecture for the unique split singular quartic Del Pezzo surface with a singularity of type D4. (Lectures at the summer school "Equidistribution in number theory", Montreal, August 2005)
We prove Manin's conjecture concerning the distribution of rational points of bounded height, and its refinement by Peyre, for wonderful compactifications of semi-simple algebraic groups over number fields. The proof proceeds via the study of the associated height zeta function and its spectral expansion.
We demonstrate the Batyrev-Manin Conjecture for the number of points of bounded height on hypersurfaces of some toric varieties.. The method used is inspired by the one developed by Schindler for the study the case of hypersurfaces of biprojective spaces. This method is based on the Hardy-Littlewood circle method. The constant obtained in the final asymptotic formula is the one conjectured by Peyre. ----- Nous démontrons la conjecture de Batyrev-Manin pour le nombre de points de hauteur bornée sur les hypersurfaces de certaines variétés toriques. La méthode utilisée est inspirée de celle dével…
We prove Batyrev/Manin conjecture for the number of points of bounded height on some smooth hypersurfaces of the triprojective space of tridegree (1,1,1). The constant appearing in the final result is the one conjectured by Peyre. The method used is the one developped by Schindler to study the case of hypersurfaces of biprojective spaces. This method is based on the Hardy-Littlewood circle method. ----- Nous démontrons ici la conjecture de Batyrev/Manin pour le nombre de points de hauteur bornée sur des hypersurfaces de l'espace triprojectif de tridegré (1,1,1). La constante obtenue dans le ré…
We demonstrate the Batyrev-Manin Conjecture for the number of points of bounded height on hypersurfaces of some toric varieties whose rank of the Picard group is 2. The method used is inspired by the one developed by Schindler for the study the case of hypersurfaces of biprojective spaces. This method is based on the Hardy-Littlewood circle method. The constant obtained in the final asymptotic formula is the one conjectured by Peyre. ----- Nous démontrons la conjecture de Batyrev-Manin pour le nombre de points de hauteur bornée sur les hypersurfaces de certaines variétés toriques dont le rang …
We prove the Manin-Peyre conjecture for the number of rational points of bounded height outside of a thin subset on a family of Fano threefolds of bidegree (1,2). The proof uses a mixture of the circle method and techniques from the geometry of numbers.
In this note, we establish an asymptotic formula for the number of rational points of bounded height on the singular cubic surface $$ x_0(x_1^2 + x_2^2)=x_3^3 $$ with a power-saving error term, which verifies the Manin-Peyre conjectures for this surface.
We propose an empirical formula for the problem of local distribution of rational points of bounded height. This is a local version of the Batyrev-Manin-Peyre principle. We verify this for a toric surface, on which cuspidal rational curves and nodal rational curves all give the best approximations outside a Zariski closed subset. We prove the existence of a limit measure as well as an asymptotic formula for the critical zoom by removing a thin set.
