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The Hasse principle and weak approximation is established for non-singular cubic hypersurfaces X over the function field \({\mathbb{F}_q(t)}\), provided that char \({(\mathbb{F}_{q})>{3}}\) and X has dimension at least 6.
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Browning, T.D., Vishe, P. Rational points on cubic hypersurfaces over \({\mathbb{F}_{q}(t)}\) . Geom. Funct. Anal. 25, 671–732 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00039-015-0328-5
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