TITLE: Rational points and finite étale covers
QUESTION [13 upvotes]: This question is broadly about non-trivial examples where a map $f:Y\to X$ of smooth projective $k$-varieties ($k$ not algebraically closed) is such that existence of $k$-points (or in fact $k'$-points for $k'/k$ a finite extension) on $X$ ensures their existence on $Y$. For example, if $f$ is a birational $k$-map, the Lang-Nishimura Theorem guarantees an element of $Y(k)$ if $X(k)$ is not empty.
An interesting example is the case of $f:Y\to X$ being a finite étale cover. In general it will not be the case that a point in $X(k)$ lifts to one in $Y(k)$ (for example elliptic curves and an element in the Tate-Shafarevich group). Are there however examples or conditions that guarantee this happens?
We say that a variety $X/k$ is potentially dense if $X(k')$ is dense in $\bar{X}$ for some finite extension $k'/k$. Campana's classification program conjectures that $X$ is potentially dense if and only $X$ is special (i.e. has trivial core), so in this case, since it seems that a finite étale cover remains special if the base is special, we'd have that the arithmetic of special varieties is preserved under étale covers. But does potential density pull back under finite étale covers?
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REPLY [4 votes]: For finite étale morphisms I found the following result in a survey article of Graber, Harris, Mazur and Starr:
Call a flat morphism $\pi:X\to B$ of schemes over a number field $F$ with $B$ smooth and irreducible arithmetically surjective if for every finite degree extension $L/F$, the induced mapping of rational points $X(L)\to B(L)$ is surjective.
$\textbf{Proposition:}$ Let $B$ be an integral, integrally closed scheme over a number field $F$. A finite flat morphism $\pi:X\to B$ defined over $F$ is arithmetically surjective if and only if it admits a section over $F$.