Manin's Conjecture for Equivariant compactifications of forms of ${\mathbb{G}}_a^n$

Abstract

We prove the Batyrev-Manin conjecture for smooth equivariant compactifications of forms of ${\mathbb{G}}_a^n$ over a global function field $F$, assuming some conditions on the boundary divisor. To verify that the leading constant agrees with Peyre's predicition we also show that a commutative unipotent group admitting a smooth equivariant compactification satisfies the Hasse principle for algebraic groups and weak approximation. We study in detail the case of ${\mathbb{P}}^{p-1}$, where $p$ is the characteristic of $F$, viewed as a compactification of appropriate $F$-wound groups to illustrate new phenomena appearing in the function field setting.