Line bundles on arithmetic surfaces and intersection theory.
More cubic surfaces violating the Hasse principle
We generalize L. J. Mordell’s construction of cubic surfaces for which the Hasse principle fails.
On the order three Brauer classes for cubic surfaces
We describe a method to compute the Brauer-Manin obstruction for smooth cubic surfaces over ℚ such that Br(S)/Br(ℚ) is a 3-group. Our approach is to associate a Brauer class with every ordered triplet of Galois invariant pairs of Steiner trihedra. We show that all order three Brauer classes may be obtained in this way. To show the effect of the obstruction, we give explicit examples.
Cubic surfaces with a Galois invariant double-six
We present a method to construct non-singular cubic surfaces over ℚ with a Galois invariant double-six. We start with cubic surfaces in the hexahedral form of L. Cremona and Th. Reye. For these, we develop an explicit version of Galois descent.
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