The Brauer-Manin obstruction for constant curves over global function fields

Abstract

Let $\mathbb{F}$ be a finite field and $C,D$ smooth, geometrically irreducible proper curves over $\mathbb{F}$ and set $K=\mathbb{F}(D)$. We consider Brauer-Manin and abelian descent obstructions to the existence of rational points and to weak approximation for the curve $C{\otimes }_{\mathbb{F}}K$. In particular, we show that Brauer-Manin is the only obstruction to weak approximation and the Hasse principle in the case that the genus of $D$ is less than that of $C$. We also show that we can identify the points corresponding to non-constant maps $D\to C$ using Frobenius descents.

v2: Corrected an error in the proof of Lemma 3.2