Hasse principle for Kummer varieties in the case of generic 2‐torsion
Conditional on finiteness of relevant Shafarevich--Tate groups, Harpaz and Skorobogatov used Swinnerton-Dyer's descent-fibration method to establish the Hasse principle for Kummer varieties associated to a 2-covering of a principally polarised abelian variety under certain largeness assumptions on its mod 2 Galois image. Their method breaks down however when the Galois image is maximal, due to the possible failure of the Shafarevich--Tate group of quadratic twists of A to have square order. In this work we overcome this obstruction by combining second descent ideas in the spirit of Harpaz and Smith with results on the parity of 2-infinity Selmer ranks in quadratic twist families. This allows Swinnerton-Dyer's method to be successfully applied to K3 surfaces arising as quotients of 2-coverings of Jacobians of genus 2 curves with no rational Weierstrass points.
Publication Details
- Journal
- Apollo (University of Cambridge)
- Published
- 2025-07-15
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.17863/cam.119960
- Primary Topic
- Algebraic Geometry and Number Theory
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00