Zero-cycles on quadric fibrations: Finiteness theorems and the cycle map
Zero-cycles on quadric fibrations: Finiteness theorems and the cycle map
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二次纤维的零周期:有限定理和周期图
DOI:
10.1007/s002220050042
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发表时间:
1996
影响因子:
3.1
通讯作者:
V. Suresh
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作者:
R. Parimala;V. Suresh
The structure of the torsion subgroup of the Chow group of cycles in codimension 2, for varieties over local and global fields is fairly well understood, thanks to the deep results of Merkurjev and Suslin (cf.[CT2]). However, much less is known on the torsion in the Chow group CH0 (X) of 0-cycles on varieties X of dimension greater than 2. For instance, it is not known whether CH0 (X) is finitely generated for smooth projective varieties over number fields. In this paper, we study the Chow group of 0-cycles on quadric fibrations over curves. Our starting point is an elegant paper of Colliot-Thdl6ne and Skorobogatov [CTS], in which there is an identification of the" relative" Chow group of 0-cycles on a quadric fibration over a curve, with a certain subquotient of the group of nonzero elements of the function field of the curve, defined in terms of the values of the quadratic form defining the generic fibre. Let rc'X-~ C be an" admissible quadric fibration"(cf. Sect. 0) of relative dimension d> 1, of a smooth projective curve C over a field k of characteristic not 2 and let CHo (X/C) denote the kernel of the homomorphism re, 9 CH0 (X)~ CH0 (C). Using the above characterisation of the relative Chow group CHo (X/C), Colliot-Th616ne and Skorobogatov proved finiteness of CHo (X/C)[CTS, Theorem 6.2] when d 5 2 and k is a number field (except in one special situation, which is treated in this paper) or a local field. They also show that CHo (X/C) is zero if k is a field of cohomological dimension 1. They raised the following questions in a more general setting. i) If k is a finitely generated field over the field Q of rational numbers, is the group CHo (X/C) finite? ii) If d> 3 and ka field of cohomological dimension less than or equal to 2, is the group CHo (X/C) zero, or is it at least finite'?