Geometry-of-numbers methods over global fields I: Prehomogeneous vector spaces

We develop geometry-of-numbers methods to count orbits in prehomogeneous vector spaces having bounded invariants over any global field. As our primary example, we apply these techniques to determine, for any base global field $F$ of characteristic not 2, the density of discriminants of field extensions of degree at most 5 over $F$.

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