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On the universal $\mathrm{CH}_0$ group of cubic threefolds in positive characteristic

Algebraic Geometry 2017-01-13 v2

Abstract

We adapt for algebraically closed fields kk of characteristic greater than 22 two results of Voisin, on the decomposition of the diagonal of a smooth cubic hypersurface XX of dimension 33 over C\mathbb C, namely: the equivalence between Chow-theoretic and cohomological decompositions of the diagonal of those hypersurfaces and the fact that the algebraicity (with Z2\mathbb Z_2-coefficients) of the minimal class θ4/4!\theta^4/4! of the intermediate jacobian J(X)J(X) of XX implies the Chow-theoretic decomposition of the diagonal of XX. Using the second result, the Tate conjecture for divisors on surfaces defined over finite fields predicts, via a theorem of Schoen, that every smooth cubic hypersurface of dimension 33 over the algebraic closure of a finite field of characteristic >2>2 admits a Chow-theoretic decomposition of the diagonal.

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@article{arxiv.1602.06767,
  title  = {On the universal $\mathrm{CH}_0$ group of cubic threefolds in positive characteristic},
  author = {René Mboro},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.06767},
  year   = {2017}
}

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arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1407.7261 by other authors