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ON THE DESCENT CONJECTURE FOR RATIONAL POINTS AND ZERO-CYCLES

Part of: Algebraic number theory: global fields Arithmetic problems. Diophantine geometry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 November 2025

Nguyen Manh Linh Open the ORCID record for Nguyen Manh Linh [Opens in a new window]
Nguyen Manh Linh*
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Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu-Paris Rive Gauche, CNRS , Paris, France
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Abstract

The descent method is one of the approaches to study the Brauer–Manin obstruction to the local–global principle and to weak approximation on varieties over number fields, by reducing the problem to ‘descent varieties’. In recent lecture notes by Wittenberg, he formulated a ‘descent conjecture’ for torsors under linear algebraic groups. The present article gives a proof of this conjecture in the case of connected groups, generalizing the toric case from the previous work of Harpaz–Wittenberg. As an application, we deduce directly from Sansuc’s work the theorem of Borovoi for homogeneous spaces of connected linear algebraic groups with connected stabilizers. We are also able to reduce the general case to the case of finite (étale) torsors. When the set of rational points is replaced by the Chow group of zero-cycles, an analogue of the above conjecture for arbitrary linear algebraic groups is proved.

Keywords

Brauer–Manin obstructionGalois cohomologyzero-cyclesdescent theory

MSC classification

Primary: 14G05: Rational points
Secondary: 11R34: Galois cohomology

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Journal of the Institute of Mathematics of Jussieu , First View , pp. 1 - 49
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