Hasse principle for intersections of two quadrics via Kummer surfaces

Abstract

We prove new cases of the Hasse principle for Kummer surfaces constructed from 2-coverings of Jacobians of genus 2 curves, assuming finiteness of relevant Tate-Shafarevich groups. Under the same assumption, we deduce the Hasse principle for quartic del Pezzo surfaces with trivial Brauer group and irreducible or completely split characteristic polynomial, hence the Hasse principle for smooth complete intersections of two quadrics in the projective space of dimension at least 5.