Does every smooth proper morphism with nonempty have a section?
EDIT [Bjorn gave additional information in a comment below, which I am recopying here. -- Pete L. Clark]
Here are some special cases, according to the relative dimension . If , a positive answer follows from Minkowski's theorem that every nontrivial finite extension of ramifies at at least one prime. If , it is a consequence (via taking the Jacobian) of the theorem of Abrashkin and Fontaine that there is no nonzero abelian scheme over , together with (for the genus case) the fact that a quaternion algebra over split at every finite place is trivial.
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