Local solubility for homogeneous polynomials with random coeffi- cients over thin sets
Let d and n be natural numbers greater or equal to 2. Let ⟨a,νd,n(x)⟩∈Z[x] be a homogeneous polynomial in n variables of degree d with integer coefficients a, where ⟨⋅,⋅⟩ denotes the inner product, and νd,n:Rn→RN denotes the Veronese embedding with N=(n+d−1d). Consider a variety Va in Pn−1, defined by ⟨a,νd,n(x)⟩=0. In this paper, we examine a set of integer vectors a∈\ZN, defined by
A(A;P)={a∈\ZN: P(a)=0, ‖a‖∞≤A},
where P∈Z[\x] is a non-singular form in N variables of degree k with 2≤k≤C(n,d) for some constant C(n,d) depending at most on n and d.
Suppose that P(a)=0 has a nontrivial integer solution. We confirm that the proportion of integer vectors a∈\ZN in A(A), whose associated equation ⟨a,νd,n(x)⟩=0 is everywhere locally soluble, converges to a constant cP as A→∞. Moreover, for each place v of \Q, if there exists a non-zero bv∈\QNv such that P(bv)=0 and the variety Vbv in Pn−1 admits a smooth Qv-point, the constant cP is positive. This is a joint work with Heejong Lee and Seungsu Lee.