The local monodromy as a generalized algebraic correspondence (with an appendix by Spencer Bloch).
Let be a curve over a field with a rational point . We define a canonical cycle . Suppose that is a number field and that has semi-stable reduction over the integers of with fiber components non-singular. We construct a regular model of and show that the height pairing is well defined where and are correspondences. The paper ends with a brief discussion of heights and -functions in the case that is a modular curve.
In this paper we show that for every prime the dimension of the -torsion in the Tate-Shafarevich group of can be arbitrarily large, where is an elliptic curve defined over a number field , with bounded by a constant depending only on . From this we deduce that the dimension of the -torsion in the Tate-Shafarevich group of can be arbitrarily large, where is an abelian variety, with bounded by a constant depending only on .
Given a smooth subscheme of a projective space over a finite field, we compute the probability that its intersection with a fixed number of hypersurface sections of large degree is smooth of the expected dimension. This generalizes the case of a single hypersurface, due to Poonen. We use this result to give a probabilistic model for the number of rational points of such a complete intersection. A somewhat surprising corollary is that the number of rational points on a random smooth intersection...