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Abstract We formulate a general problem: Given projective schemes and over a global fieldKand aK‐morphism η from to of finite degree, how many points in of height at mostBhave a pre‐image under η in ? This problem is inspired by a well‐known conjecture of Serre on quantitative upper bounds for the number of points of bounded height on an irreducible projective variety defined over a number field. We give a nontrivial answer to the general problem when and is a prime degree cyclic cover of . Our tool is a new geometric sieve, which generalizes the polynomial sieve to a geometric setting over global function fields. 

Abstract In this work we study d-dimensional majorant properties. We prove that a set of frequencies in $$\mathbb{Z}^d$$ satisfies the strict majorant property on $L^p([0,1]^d)$ for all p > 0 if and only if the set is affinely independent. We further construct three types of violations of the strict majorant property. Any set of at least d + 2 frequencies in $$\mathbb{Z}^d$$ violates the strict majorant property on $L^p([0,1]^d)$ for an open interval of $$p \not\in 2\mathbb{N}$$ of length 2. Any infinite set of frequencies in $$\mathbb{Z}^d$$ violates the strict majorant property on $L^p([0,1]^d)$ for an infinite sequence of open intervals of $$p \not\in 2\mathbb{N}$$ of length 2. Finally, given any p > 0 with $$p \not\in 2\mathbb{N}$$, we exhibit a set of d + 2 frequencies on the moment curve in $$\mathbb{R}^d$$ that violate the strict majorant property on $L^p([0,1]^d).$ 

Abstract In 1980 Carleson posed a question on the minimal regularity of an initial data function in a Sobolev space $$H^s({\mathbb {R}}^n)$$ that implies pointwise convergence for the solution of the linear Schrödinger equation. After progress by many authors, this was recently resolved (up to the endpoint) by Bourgain, whose counterexample construction for the Schrödinger maximal operator proved a necessary condition on the regularity, and Du and Zhang, who proved a sufficient condition. Analogues of Carleson’s question remain open for many other dispersive partial differential equations. We develop a flexible new method to approach such problems and prove that for any integer $$k\geq 2$$, if a degree $$k$$ generalization of the Schrödinger maximal operator is bounded from $$H^s({\mathbb {R}}^n)$$ to $$L^1(B_n(0,1))$$, then $$s \geq \frac {1}{4} + \frac {n-1}{4((k-1)n+1)}.$$ In dimensions $$n \geq 2$$, for every degree $$k \geq 3$$, this is the first result that exceeds a long-standing barrier at $1/4$. Our methods are number-theoretic, and in particular apply the Weil bound, a consequence of the truth of the Riemann Hypothesis over finite fields.