Potential density for some families of homogeneous spaces

J. -L. Colliot-Thélène, J. N. Iyer

Published 2011-02-11, updated 2011-02-21Version 2

For a smooth, projective family of homogeneous varieties defined over a number field, we show that if potential density holds for the rational points of the base, then it also holds for the total space. A conjecture of Campana and Peternell, known in dimension at most 4 and for certain higher dimensional cases, would then imply potential density for the rational points of smooth projective varieties over number fields whose tangent bundle is nef.