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The Brauer–Manin obstruction on del Pezzo surfaces of degree 2 branched along a plane section of a Kummer surface

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2008

ADAM LOGAN
ADAM LOGAN*
Affiliation:
Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo, ON, CanadaN2L 3G1. e-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

This paper discusses the Brauer–Manin obstruction on double covers of the projective plane branched along a plane section of a Kummer surface from both the practical and the theoretical points of view. Theoretical highlights include the determination of a complete set of generators for the Brauer group; on the practical side, we give several surfaces with a Brauer–Manin obstruction and verify that the Brauer–Manin obstruction is the only one for a collection of several thousand surfaces of this type.

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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 144 , Issue 3 , May 2008 , pp. 603 - 622
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 2008

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