Brauer Points on Fermat Curves
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The Hasse principle is said to hold for a class of varieties over a number field K if for any variety X in the class, the set of rational points X(K) is non-empty whenever the set of adelic points X(AK) is non-empty. Manin [Man] observed that the failure of the Hasse principle can often be explained in terms of the Brauer group of X, Br(X). The product rule implies that X(K) must be contained in the set of Brauer points
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