Remarks on filtrations of the homology of real varieties (Q1946048)

The Borel-Moore homology of a real algebraic variety \(X\) potentially carries two filtration related to algebraic cycles. The first is given by the images of the reduced Lawson homology: \[ RL_nH_*(X)\to RL_{n-1}H_*(X)\to\dots\to RL_0H_*(X)=H_*^{BM}(X;\mathbb{Z}/2). \] The second filtration is the niveau filtration given by the sum of images of homologies of varieties with bounded dimensions. \textit{J.-H. Teh} [Indiana Univ. Math. J. 59, No. 1, 327--384 (2010; Zbl 1206.14021)] conjectured that two filtrations coincide. The analogous question for complex varieties, the Friedlaned-Mazur conjecture, follows from Beilinson-Lichtenbaum conjecture. In the paper it is shown that in the real case the niveau filtration is trivial. Also there are given examples for which the maps from Lawson homology are not surjective (nor injective). The result follows from collapsing of the niveau spectral sequence for reduced morphic homology (a dual version of Lawson homology). The proof is based on the local vanishing the motivic homology in degrees larger than the weight. In addition it is shown that the reduced morphic homology can be computed as sheaf cohomology. Finally a relation with étale cohomology is given.