Examples of smash nilpotent cycles on rationally connected varieties (Q2347989)

A cycle \(Z \subset X\) is smash nilpotent if \(Z\times \ldots \times Z\) is rationally equivalent to \(0\) in \(X \times \ldots \times X\). Here and in the following we only talk about Chow groups with rational coefficients. This is an equivalence relation. A conjecture of \textit{V. Voevodsky} [Int. Math. Res. Not. 1995, No. 4, 187--199 (1995; Zbl 0861.14006)] is that numerical equivalence is the same as the equivalence defined by smash nilpotent relations. Vovoedsky [loc. cit.] and \textit{C. Voisin} [Lect. Notes Pure Appl. Math. 179, 265--285 (1996; Zbl 0912.14003)] proved that algebraically trivial cycles are smash nilpotent. The author gives some examples where the conjecture of Vovoedsky is true. The main ingredient is the decomposition of diagonal principle of \textit{S. Bloch} and \textit{V. Srinivas} [Am. J. Math. 105, 1235--1253 (1983; Zbl 0525.14003)].