Generators for cubic surfaces with two skew lines over finite fields |
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Authors: | Jenny Cooley |
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Affiliation: | 1. Mathematics Institute, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK
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Abstract: | Let S be a smooth cubic surface defined over a field K. As observed by Segre [5] and Manin [3, 4], there is a secant and tangent process on S that generates new K-rational points from old ones. It is natural to ask for the size of a minimal generating set for S(K). In a recent paper, for fields K with at least 13 elements, Siksek [7] showed that if S contains a skew pair of K-lines, then S(K) can be generated from one point. In this paper we prove the corresponding version of this result for fields K having at least 4 elements, and slightly milder results for # K = 2 or 3. |
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