Chow groups and \(L\)-derivatives of automorphic motives for unitary groups (Q2058614): Difference between revisions

From the abstract: ``We study the Chow group of the motive associated to a tempered global \(L\)-packet \(\pi\) of unitary groups of even rank with respect to a CM extension, whose global root number is \(-1\). We show that, under some restrictions on the ramification of \(\pi\), if the central derivative \(L'(1/2, \pi)\) is nonvanishing, then the \(\pi\)-nearly isotypic localization of the Chow group of a certain unitary Shimura variety over its reflex field does not vanish. This proves part of the Beilinson-Bloch conjecture for Chow groups and \(L\)-functions, which generalizes the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture. Moreover, assuming the modularity of Kudla's generating functions of special cycles, we explicitly construct elements in a certain \(\pi\)-nearly isotypic subspace of the Chow group by arithmetic theta lifting, and compute their heights in terms of the central derivative \(L'(1/2, \pi)\) and local doubling zeta integrals. This confirms the conjectural arithmetic inner product formula proposed by one of us [the second author, Algebra Number Theory 5, No. 7, 849--921 (2011; Zbl 1258.11060)], which generalizes the Gross-Zagier formula to higher dimensional motives.'' The results of this paper have been improved by the authors in [Forum Math. Pi 10, Paper No. e5, 71 p. (2022; Zbl 1497.11163)].