Künneth decompositions for quotient varieties (Q855781)

An abelian variety \(A\) over a field \(k\) allows explicit, computable Chow-Künneth decompositions \(\Delta=\pi_0 +\ldots + \pi_{2d}\), \(d=\dim(A)\), by results of Shermenev, Beauville, Deninger, Murre, Künnemann and others. Here \(\Delta\) is the diagonal in \(A \times A\) and \(\pi_i\) an orthogonal system of idempotent correspondences in \(\text{CH}^d(A \times A)_{\mathbb Q}\). The authors consider quotients \(f: A \to A/G\) of an abelian variety \(A\) by a finite group \(G\) and show that the obvious projectors \(\eta_i=\frac{1}{| G| }(f \times f)_\ast \pi_i\) form a Chow-Künneth decomposition of \(A/G\). Furthermore \(\eta_i\) acts trivially on rational Chow groups \(\text{CH}^j(A/G)_{\mathbb Q}\) for \(i<j\) and \(i>j+d\) (resp. \(i>2j\) for \(d \leq 4\)). Thus, at least in the case \(d\leq 4\), this is the behaviour conjectured by \textit{J. P. Murre} [Indag. Math., New Ser. 4, No.~2, 189--201 (1993; Zbl 0805.14002)]. Finally the authors discuss strong Künneth decompositions under finite group quotients in general and apply this to linear varieties.