## Minimal del Pezzo surfaces of degree 2 over finite fields.(English)Zbl 1405.14091

Let $$X$$ be a del Pezzo surface of degree 2 over a finite field $$\mathbb{F}_{q}$$ and $$\overline{X} = X \otimes \overline{\mathbb{F}_{q}}$$. The Galois group $$\mathrm{Gal}(\overline{\mathbb{F}_{q}}/\mathbb{F}_{q})$$ acts on $$\mathrm{Pic}(\overline{X})$$ and the image of this Galois action, $$\Gamma$$ is a finite cyclic subgroup in $$W(E_{7}) = O(\mathrm{Pic}(\overline{X}))$$. There are 60 conjugacy classes of finite cyclic subgroups of $$W(E_{7})$$. Among them, 18 classes can be realized for minimal del Pezzo surfaces of degree 2 over a finite field. It is also known that, for a sufficiently large $$q$$, there exists a minimal del Pezzo surface of degree 2 over $$\mathbb{F}_{q}$$ associated to any member in the possible 18 conjugacy classes. [B. Banwait et al., “Del Pezzo surfaces over finite fields and their Frobenius traces”, Preprint, arXiv:1606.00300] This conjugacy class of $$\Gamma$$ determines the zeta function of $$X$$.
In the paper under review, the author studies detailed conditions of $$q$$ for a del Pezzo surface of degree 2 over $$\mathbb{F}_{q}$$ associated to each type of conjugacy class to exist. He found the complete conditions for 14 types and some partial results on the remaining 4 types. (Theorem 1.1) The author used the Sarkisov links, which are birational modifications on conic bundles (see section 2) and the Geiser involutions, which are involutions related to the double covering map induced by the anticanonical divisor (see section 3) to prove the main result.

### MSC:

 14J26 Rational and ruled surfaces 14G15 Finite ground fields in algebraic geometry 14G10 Zeta functions and related questions in algebraic geometry (e.g., Birch-Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture) 11G25 Varieties over finite and local fields

### Keywords:

del Pezzo surfaces; finite field; zeta function
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