Algebraic cycles on certain desingularized nodal hypersurfaces (Q789453)

One difficulty in testing the Hodge conjecture is the scarcity of methods available for computing the Hodge ring, \(Hg^.(Y):=\otimes_{p\geq 0}H^{p,p}(Y)\cap H^{2p}(Y,{\mathbb{Q}}),\) of a complex smooth projective variety Y. Abelian varieties with certain endomorphism algebras and Fermat varieties provide some of the few known examples in which the Hodge ring can be computed and the Hodge conjecture is non-trivial. S. Bloch suggested to the author a way of determining the Hodge ring of a desingularization of a hypersurface in \({\mathbb{P}}^{2m}\) with only isolated ordinary double points as singularities. This idea is explained and used to produce varieties for which the Hodge question is non- trivial. For each of the examples which we are able to construct, we find enough algebraic cycles to prove the Hodge conjecture. For instance, it is shown that if \(X\subset {\mathbb{P}}^{2m}\) has only isolated ordinary double points as singularities and if \(X_{\sin g}\) is a complete intersection in \({\mathbb{P}}^{2m}\), then the Hodge conjecture holds for the blow up of X along \(X_{\sin g}\).