2-cycles on higher Fano hypersurfaces (Q522648)

Voisin asked the question whether the Griffiths group of one cycles on a rationally connected variety is trivial. It is known that such a group is torsion birational invariant on a smooth projective rationally connected variety. But it seems likely that such a group is in fact trivial for all rationally connected varieties. The first result of the author studies the Griffiths group of one cycles on a Fano scheme of lines \(F(X)\) on a smooth degree \(d\) hypersurface \(X\), assuming the Fano scheme of lines is smooth itself. He proves that when the degree is small, the Griffiths group of one cycles on \(F(X)\) is trivial. A better bound (\(n>\frac{d(d+1)}{2}\)) is obtained by \textit{R. Mboro} [Geom. Dedicata 200, 1--25 (2019; Zbl 1439.14053), Theorem 0.5]. The second result of the author is that when \(n>\frac{d(2d^2+1)}{3}\), \(\mathrm{CH}_2(X)\cong \mathbb{Z}\) and \(F(X)\) is smooth. The bound is essentially used to show that any surface \(S\) in \(X\) is rationally equivalent to a sum of ruled surfaces. The trick to prove this statement is to notice that the space of a chain of two lines connecting two points in \(X\) is a complete intersection of certain type. The classical Tsen-Lang theorem then shows that one can find a family of chains of two lines, parameterized by the surface \(S\), together with two sections, such that one section is mapped to \(S\) and the other section is mapped to a fixed point. In the total space of this family, the two sections are rationally equivalent modulo ruled surfaces. Then one can push forward this relation. The author then goes on to study surfaces in \(X\), or equivalently curves in \(F(X)\). It seems that one can use Mboro's result to get a better bound of degree and remove the smoothness assumption.