Failure of Weak Approximation in Adjoint Groups
Abstract
Platonov in 1991 conjectured that adjoint groups are rational as varieties over arbitrary infinite fields, and as a consequence have weak approximation. The rationality part of the conjecture was disproved by Merkurjev in 1996, but the question about weak approximation remained open. We settle this in the negative.
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