Rational points on cubic hypersurfaces that split off a form

Abstract

Let X be a projective cubic hypersurface of dimension 11 or more, which is defined over the rationals. In this paper it is shown that X contains rational points provided that the cubic form defining X can be written as the sum of two forms that share no common variables. ----- This paper features an appendix "Groupe de Brauer non ramifi\'e des hypersurfaces cubiques singuli\`eres (d'apr\`es P. Salberger)", by J.-L. Colliot-Th\'l\`ene.