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On Albanese torsors and the elementary obstruction

Algebraic Geometry 2016-03-29 v2 Number Theory

Abstract

We show that the elementary obstruction to the existence of 0-cycles of degree 1 on an arbitrary variety X (over an arbitrary field) can be expressed in terms of the Albanese 1-motives associated with dense open subsets of X. Arithmetic applications are given.

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@article{arxiv.math/0611284,
  title  = {On Albanese torsors and the elementary obstruction},
  author = {Olivier Wittenberg},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0611284},
  year   = {2016}
}
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