Around rationality of cycles

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Abstract: In this article we prove certain results comparing rationality of algebraic cycles over the function field of a quadric and over the base field. Those results have already been proved by Alexander Vishik in the case of characteristic 0, which allowed him to work with algebraic cobordism theory. Our proofs use the modulo 2 Steenrod operations in the Chow theory and work in any characteristic different from 2.


Let \(F\) be a field of characteristic different from 2 and let \(\bar{F}\) be a fixed algebraic closure of \(F\). Let \(Y\) be a smooth quasi-projective \(F\)-scheme. Write \(\mathrm{CH}(Y)=\bigoplus_{d\geq 0}\mathrm{CH}^d(Y)\) for the (integral) Chow group of \(Y\) and \(\mathrm{Ch}(Y)\) for \(\mathrm{CH}(Y)\otimes(\mathbb{Z}/2\mathbb{Z})\). For any geometrically integral \(F\)-variety \(X\), an element of \(\mathrm{Ch}(Y_{\bar{F}})\) is said to be \(F(X)\)-rational if its image in \(\mathrm{Ch}(Y_{\bar{F}(X)})\) lies in the image of the canonical map \(\mathrm{Ch}(Y_{F(X)})\to \mathrm{Ch}(Y_{\bar{F}(X)})\). In particular, an element of \(\mathrm{Ch}(Y_{\bar{F}})\) is \(F\)-rational if it belongs to the image of \(\mathrm{Ch}(Y)\to \mathrm{Ch}(Y_{\bar{F}})\). Let \(Q\) be a smooth projective quadric over \(F\). \textit{A. Vishik} [Manuscr. Math. 122, No. 3, 365--374 (2007; Zbl 1154.14003)] proved in characteristic 0 that if a cycle \(y\in \mathrm{Ch}^m(Y_{\bar F})\) is \(F(Q)\)-rational, then for any integer \(j>m-\frac{1}{2}\dim Q\), the cycle \(S^j(y)\in \mathrm{Ch}^{m+j}(Y)\) is \(F\)-rational, where \(S^j\) denotes the \(j\)-th Steenrod operation of cohomological type. Vishik's proof requires to work over fields of characteristic 0 because tools from the algebraic cobordism theory have been used in an essential way. \textit{N. A. Karpenko} [Cent. Eur. J. Math. 11, No. 6, 1056--1067 (2013; Zbl 1300.14008)] has proven for \(j=0\) a weak version of Vishik's result in arbitrary characteristic \(\neq 2\), by replacing the use of algebraic cobordism theory with that of Steenrod operations on modulo 2 Chow groups. The paper under review is a continuation of Karpenko's work and extends Karpenko's result to the case of an arbitrary \(j>m-\frac{1}{2}\dim Q\). The main results of the present paper assert that the following statements hold in any characteristic \(\neq 2\): (1) If \(m<j+\frac{1}{2}\dim Q\), then for any \(F(Q)\)-rational element \(y\in \mathrm{Ch}^m(Y_{\bar F})\), \(S^j(y)\) is the sum of an \(F\)-rational element and the class modulo 2 of a 2-torsion element of \(\mathrm{CH}(Y_{\bar F})\). (2) If \(m=j+[\frac{1+\dim Q}{2}]\), then for any \(F(Q)\)-rational element \(y\in \mathrm{Ch}^m(Y_{\bar F})\), there exists an \(F\)-rational element \(z\in \mathrm{Ch}^j(Y_{\bar F})\) such that \(S^j(y)+y.z\) is the sum of an \(F\)-rational element and the class modulo 2 of a 2-torsion element of \(\mathrm{CH}(Y_{\bar F})\).











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