Abstract
Let be a smooth cubic hypersurface of dimension . It is well-known that new rational points may be obtained from old ones by secant and tangent constructions. In view of the Mordell–Weil theorem for , Manin (1968) asked if there exists a finite set from which all other rational points can be thus obtained. We give an affirmative answer for , showing in fact that we can take the generating set to consist of just one point. Our proof makes use of a weak approximation theorem due to Skinner, a theorem of Browning, Dietmann and Heath-Brown on the existence of rational points on the intersection of a quadric and cubic in large dimension, and some elementary ideas from differential geometry, algebraic geometry and numerical analysis.
Citation
Stefanos Papanikolopoulos. Samir Siksek. "A Mordell–Weil theorem for cubic hypersurfaces of high dimension." Algebra Number Theory 11 (8) 1953 - 1965, 2017. https://doi.org/10.2140/ant.2017.11.1953
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