Arithmetic of rationaly connected quintic 3-folds over finite and function fields

Abstract

We prove that both classical Chevalley-Warning-Ax and Tsen theorems hold for the blowing up of a quintic 3-fold along a line of multiplicity 3. Both proofs, which are of the same spirit than the original ones, involve the description of this blowing-up as a subvariety of a toric variety.

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