Density of rational points on a quadric bundle in ${\mathbb{P}}^3\times {\mathbb{P}}^3$

Abstract

An asymptotic formula is established for the number of rational points of bounded anticanonical height which lie on a certain Zariski dense subset of the biprojective hypersurface $x_1{y}_1^2+\cdots +x_4{y}_4^2=0$ in ${\mathbb{P}}^3\times {\mathbb{P}}^3$. This confirms the modified Manin conjecture for this variety, in which the removal of a thin set of rational points is allowed.

60 pages; minor edits and added a reference to recent work of Lehmann and Tanimoto, where it is confirmed that the thin set we remove is the one predicted by the Lehmann-Sengupta-Tanimoto machinery

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• Counting rational points on quadric surfaces

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• The geometric exceptional set in Manin's conjecture for Batyrev and Tschinkel's example