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Local and local-to-global Principles for zero-cycles on geometrically Kummer $K3$ surfaces

Algebraic Geometry 2026-05-27 v2

Abstract

Let XX be a K3K3 surface over a pp-adic field kk such that for some abelian surface AA isogenous to a product of two elliptic curves, there is an isomorphism over the algebraic closure of kk between XX and the Kummer surface associated to AA. Under some assumptions on the reduction types of the elliptic curve factors of AA, we prove that the Chow group A0(X)A_0(X) of zero-cycles of degree 00 on XX is the direct sum of a divisible group and a finite group. This proves a conjecture of Raskind and Spiess and of Colliot-Th\'{e}l\`{e}ne and it is the first instance for K3K3 surfaces when this conjecture is proved in full. This class of K3K3's includes, among others, the diagonal quartic surfaces. In the case of good ordinary reduction we describe many cases when the finite summand of A0(X)A_0(X) can be completely determined. Using these results, we explore a local-to-global conjecture of Colliot-Th\'{e}lene, Sansuc, Kato and Saito which, roughly speaking, predicts that the Brauer-Manin obstruction is the only obstruction to Weak Approximation for zero-cycles. We give examples of Kummer surfaces over a number field FF where the ramified places of good ordinary reduction contribute nontrivially to the Brauer set for zero-cycles of degree 00 and we describe cases when an unconditional local-to-global principle can be proved, giving the first unconditional evidence for this conjecture in the case of K3K3 surfaces.

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@article{arxiv.2402.12588,
  title  = {Local and local-to-global Principles for zero-cycles on geometrically Kummer $K3$ surfaces},
  author = {Evangelia Gazaki and Jonathan Love},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.12588},
  year   = {2026}
}

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27 pages