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Fields of definition of curves of a given degree

Authors :
Holmes, David
Rome, Nick
Publication Year :
2019

Abstract

Kontsevich and Manin gave a formula for the number $N_e$ of rational plane curves of degree $e$ through $3e-1$ points in general position in the plane. When these $3e-1$ points have coordinates in the rational numbers, the corresponding set of $N_e$ rational curves has a natural Galois-module structure. We make some extremely preliminary investigations into this Galois module structure, and relate this to the deck transformations of the generic fibre of the product of the evaluation maps on the moduli space of maps. We then study the asymptotics of the number of rational points on hypersurfaces of low degree, and use this to generalise our results by replacing the projective plane by such a hypersurface.<br />Comment: 19 pages, comments welcome

Details

Database :
arXiv
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.1901.11294
Document Type :
Working Paper