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Relative Chow-Kunneth decompositions for conic bundles and Prym varieties

Algebraic Geometry 2009-04-08 v2

Abstract

We construct a relative Chow-Kunneth decomposition for a conic bundle over a surface such that the middle projector gives the Prym variety of the associated double covering of the discriminant of the conic bundle. This gives a refinement (up to an isogeny) of Beauville's theorem on the relation between the intermediate Jacobian of the conic bundle and the Prym variety of the double covering.

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@article{arxiv.0806.1507,
  title  = {Relative Chow-Kunneth decompositions for conic bundles and Prym varieties},
  author = {Jan Nagel and Morihiko Saito},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0806.1507},
  year   = {2009}
}

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19 pages, to appear in IMRN