Rational curves on smooth hypersurfaces of low degree

Tim D Browning, Pankaj Vishe

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Abstract

We establish the dimension and irreducibility of the moduli space of rational curves (of fixed degree) on arbitrary smooth hypersurfaces of sufficiently low degree. A spreading out argument reduces the problem to hypersurfaces defined over finite fields of large cardinality, which can then be tackled using a function field version of the Hardy-Littlewood circle method, in which particular care is taken to ensure uniformity in the size of the underlying finite field.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1657–1675
Number of pages19
JournalAlgebra and Number Theory
Volume11
Issue number7
Early online date7 Sept 2017
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Sept 2017

Keywords

  • math.AG
  • math.NT
  • 14H10 (11P55, 14G05)

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