Cycles over fields of transcendence degree 1 (Q1885573)

Let \(k\) be a subfield of \(C\) and \(V\) a smooth variety defined over \(k\). Denote by CH\(^p(V)\) the Chow group of cycles of codimension \(p\) and by IJ\(^p(H^{2p-1}(V))\) the intermediate Jacobian with respect to the Deligne mixed Hodge structure on the singular cohomology group \(H^{2p-1}(V(\mathbb{C}),\mathbb{Z})\). Then the natural cycle class map \(\text{cl}_p: \text{CH}^p(V)\to H^{2p}(V)\) induces an Abel-Jacobi map \(\Phi_p: F^1 \text{CH}^p(V)\to \text{IJ}^p(H^{2p-1}(V))\), where \(F^1 \text{CH}^p(V)\) denotes the kernel of the cycle class map \(\text{cl}_p\). In this context, the famous Bloch-Beilinson conjecture predicts that \(F^2 \text{CH}^p(V):= \ker(\Phi_p)\) vanishes if \(k\) is a number field. In the paper under review, the authors construct examples to show that this condition in the above conjecture cannot be relaxed. Their examples include those given almost 20 years ago by \textit{C. Schoen} [Math. Ann. 270, 17--27 (1985; Zbl 0533.14002)], together with some important new ones. The systematic construction of new examples is based on the study of \(F^2 \text{CH}^2(S\otimes K)\) for special surfaces \(S\) defined over a number field, where \(K\) is the algebraic closure of some suitable function field of transcendence degree one, and partly uses an \(l\)-adic analogue of the Abel-Jacobi map. As for related results, in a slightly different context, we refer to \textit{C. Voisin's} recent paper ``Some results on Green's higher Abel-Jacobi map'' [Ann. Math. (2) 149, No. 2, 451--473 (1999; Zbl 1053.14006)].