Intermediate Jacobians and Chow groups of threefolds with a pencil of del Pezzo surfaces (Q920170)

Threefolds with a pencil of del Pezzo surfaces with \(1\le K^2\le 5\) are studied. The curve which parametrizes the exceptional curves on the fibers together with the incidence correspondence, induced by the intersection of the exceptional curves on the fibers, determines a Prym-Tjurin variety which is an abelian subvariety of the Jacobian of this curve. Under certain restrictions on the singular fibers of the pencil the author proves that the Prym-Tjurin variety, the intermediate Jacobian of the three-fold and the Chow group of algebraic one-cycles algebraically equivalent to zero are isomorphic. Moreover, the first two are isomorphic as principally polarized abelian varieties (see theorem 5.7 and theorem 7.3). In section 6 the author discusses the isomorphism between the Prym variety and the intermediate Jacobian and gives geometrical conditions on the singular fibers, under which this isomorphism holds (see proposition 6.1), and describes appropriate examples of del Pezzo fibrations with \(K^2_{\text{fiber}}=2, 3\).