La méthode de la descente a été introduite et développée par Colliot-Thélène et Sansuc. Elle permet d’étudier l’arithmétique de certaines variétés rationnelles. Dans ce texte on montre comment il en résulte que pour certaines familles de variétés rationnelles sur un corps local de caractéristique nulle le nombre des classes de -équivalence de la fibre est localement constant quand varie dans .
We derive a simple formula for the action of a finite crystallographic Coxeter group on the cohomology of its associated complex toric variety, using the method of counting rational points over finite fields, and the Hodge structure of the cohomology. Various applications are given, including the determination of the graded multiplicity of the reflection representation.
In this paper we determine the greatest degree of a rational projectively Cohen-Macaulay (p.C.M.) surface V in PN and we study the surfaces which attain such maximum degree.
Let be a field of characteristic zero and G be a finite group of automorphisms of projective plane over . Castelnuovo’s criterion implies that the quotient of projective plane by G is rational if the field is algebraically closed. In this paper we prove that is rational for an arbitrary field of characteristic zero.