Hypersurfaces passing through the Galois orbit of a point
Abstract
Asgarli, Ghioca, and Reichstein recently proved that if $K$ is a field with $|K|>2$, then for any positive integers $d$ and $n$, and separable field extension $L/K$ with degree $m=\binom{n+d}{d}$, there exists a point $P\in \mathbb{P}^n(L)$ which does not lie on any degree $d$ hypersurface defined over $K$. They asked whether the result holds when $|K| = 2$. We answer their question in the affirmative by combining various ideas from arithmetic geometry. More generally, we show that for each positive integer $r$ and separable field extension $L/K$ with degree $r$, there exists a point $P \in \mathbb{P}^n(L)$ such that the vector space of degree $d$ forms over $K$ that vanish at $P$ has the expected dimension. We also discuss applications to linear systems of hypersurfaces with special properties.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- January 2025
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2501.01906
- Bibcode:
- 2025arXiv250101906A
- Keywords:
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- Mathematics - Algebraic Geometry;
- Mathematics - Number Theory;
- Primary: 14G15;
- 14J70;
- Secondary: 14N05;
- 11G25
- E-Print:
- 27 pages