Torsion and divisibility for reciprocity sheaves and 0-cycles with modulus (Q330177)

Let \(k\) be a field and let \(X\) be a proper variety over \(k\), equipped with an effective Cartier divisor \(D\). The Chow group CH\(_0(X/D)\) of \(0\)-cycles with modulus \(D\) is a quotient of the group \(Z_0(X)\) of \(0\)-cycles on the open complement \(Y= X-|D|\). When \(X\) is a projective curve the group CH\(_0(X/D)\) is isomorphic to the relative Picard group Pic\((X,D)\) of isomorphism classes of pairs given by a line bundle on \(X\) together with a trivialization along \(D\). In this paper the authors study the nonhomotopy invariant part of the groups CH\(_0(X/D)\), and examine their divisibility and torsion properties. There is a canonical surjection from the Chow group with modulus to the \(0\)th Suslin homology group \[ \pi_{X,D}: \text{CH}_0(X/D)\to H^{\text{Sing}}_0(X). \] Since \(H^{\text{sing}}_0(X)\) is the maximal homotopy invariant quotient of the group \(Z_0(X)\) the kernel \(U(X/D)\) of \(\pi_{X,D}\) measures the failure of CH\(_0(X/D)\) to be homotopy invariant. For the group \(U(X/D)\) one has the following results (1) If \(\text{char\,}k=0\) the group \(U(X/D)\) is divisible, (2) if \(\text{char\,}k=p\) then \(U(X/D)\) is a \(p\)-primary torsion group. The following theorem takes care of the torsion part of CH\(_0(X/D)\), in some cases. Theorem 1. Suppose that: (i) \(k\) is algebraically closed of exponential characteristic \(p\geq1\), (ii) \(X\) is a projective variety, regular in codimension \(1\) and the open complement \(Y= X-|D|\) is smooth. Let \(\alpha\in\text{CH}_0(X/D)\) be a prime-to-\(p\)-torsion cycle. Then there exists a smooth projective curve \(C\) and a morphism \(\phi:C\to X\), for which \(\phi^*(D)\) is a well-defined Cartier divisor on \(C\), and a prime-to-\(p\)-torsion cycle \(\beta\in \text{CH}_0(C/(\phi^*(D)_{\text{red}})\) such that \(\phi_*(\beta)= \alpha\). The paper also contains similar results for reciprocity sheaves with transfers. The notion of reciprocity for presheaves with transfers, which is weaker than homotopy invariance, has been developed by \textit{B. Kahn} et al. [Compos. Math. 152, No. 9, 1851--1898 (2016; Zbl 1419.19001)] with the purpose of eventually constructing a new motivic triangulated category larger than Voevodsky's category \(DM^{\text{eff}}(k,\mathbb{Z})\).