Counting Rational Points on the Stacky $\operatorname{Sym}^2\mathbb{P}^1$

Abstract

We prove the weak form of the generalized Batyrev-Manin-Malle conjecture formulated in \cite{ellenberg2021heights} for the stack $\operatorname{Sym}^2\mathbb{P}^1 := (\mathbb{P}^1 \times \mathbb{P}^1)/S_2$, where the $S_2$ action just permutes the two coordinates. In particular, we show that the diagonal $\Delta \subset \operatorname{Sym}^2\mathbb{P}^1$ is an accumulating substack.