A family of cubic fourfolds with finite-dimensional motive (Q1712757)

The paper considers smooth cubic fourfolds $X$ which are cyclic covers of $\mathbb P^4$ branched along a smooth cubic threefold, so their equation is $x^3_5 + f(x_0, \dots, x_4) = 0 $. The main object is to prove that such fourfolds have finite-dimensional Chow motive, in Kimura's sense [\textit{S.-I. Kimura}, Math. Ann. 331, No. 1, 173--201 (2005; Zbl 1067.14006)]. As the author explains, the strategy is to exploit a theorem of \textit{B. van Geemen} and \textit{E. Izadi} [Math. Z. 242, No. 2, 279--301 (2002; Zbl 1050.14009)], which yields the existence of a correspondence $\Gamma$ in $A^5 (X \times Z \times E)$ such that it determines an embedding $H^4 (X)_{\mathrm{prim}} \hookrightarrow H^5(Z) \otimes H^1(E),$ here $Z$ is a cubic fivefold and $E$ is the Fermat elliptic curve. It follows that the homological motive of $X$ is of abelian type, the issue then is to show that this is true already for rational equivalence. The idea is to check that $\Gamma$ comes from the restriction of a correspondence in the universal family. To this aim, Voisin's method of spread is applied and then the main conclusions is reached by modifying some ideas from a result of \textit{L. Fu} [Math. Z. 280, No. 1--2, 307--334 (2015; Zbl 1388.14121)].