Intersection products for tensor triangular Chow groups (Q907351)

The paper under review studies a theory of Chow groups for tensor triangulated categories. Given a tensor triangulated category \(\mathcal T\) Balmer introduced Chow groups in case \(\mathcal T\) allows a dimension function \(\dim\), satisfying that it is strictly monotone with respect to inclusion of prime tensor ideals. The author then assumes that \(\mathcal T\) allows a model in the sense that it is the stable category of a Frobenius category, and needs to apply a sophisticated idempotent completion strategy. Because of this technical difficulty, the author defines a certain subgroup, called intersection Chow group, of Balmer's Chow group, and shows for this subgroup that it equals Balmer's if the relevant categories are already idempotent complete. Schlichting developed a \(K\)-theory in this situation, and the first main theorem realises, roughly speaking, the intersection Chow group as cohomology of the spectrum of the tensor triangulated category with values in the \(K\)-theory. A general argument then produces a bilinear map on the intersection Chow groups, called the intersection product. In the special case of the derived category of bounded complexes of locally free modules over a non singular algebraic variety the author shows that his intersection Chow groups are actually isomorphic to the usual Chow groups, and his intersection product coincides with the usual intersection product under the isomorphism.