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            | Abstract |  
            | We determine the number of Del Pezzo surfaces of degree 2 over finite fields of
 odd characteristic with specified action of the Frobenius endomorphism,
 i.e., we solve the “quantitative inverse Galois problem”. As applications we
 determine the number of Del Pezzo surfaces of degree 2 with a given number of
 points and recover results of Banwait, Fité and Loughran and Loughran and
 Trepalin.
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            | Keywords
                Del Pezzo surfaces, moduli spaces, Frobenius endomorphism,
                inverse Galois problem, point counts, cohomology
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            | Mathematical Subject Classification
                Primary: 14J10, 14J26
               
                Secondary: 05E18, 14F20
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            | Milestones
                Received: 23 November 2022
               
                Revised: 24 February 2023
               
                Accepted: 19 April 2023
               
                Published: 9 January 2024
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