Seminars: T. Krasikov, Failure of Hasse principle for intersections of two quadrics

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Iskovskikh Seminar April 12, 2018 17:00, Moscow, Steklov Mathematical Institute, room 530

Failure of Hasse principle for intersections of two quadrics T. Krasikov
Abstract: The Minkowski–Hasse theorem states that if a quadratic form with rational coefficients represents zero in in all completions of $\mathbb{Q}$ , then it represents zero over $\mathbb{Q}$. I will show that an analogous statement for a system of two quadric forms in five variables is false and give a geometric interpretation of the obtained fact. The talk is based on a paper by V.A.Iskovskikh.