Arithmetic Distance Functions and Height Fuctions in Diophantine Geometry.
Let be a rationally connected algebraic variety, defined over a number field We find a relation between the arithmetic of rational points on and the arithmetic of zero-cycles. More precisely, we consider the following statements: (1) the Brauer-Manin obstruction is the only obstruction to weak approximation for -rational points on for all finite extensions (2) the Brauer-Manin obstruction is the only obstruction to weak approximation in some sense that we define for zero-cycles of degree...