Prym-Tjurin constructions on cubic hypersurfaces

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Abstract: In this paper, we give a Prym-Tjurin construction for the cohomology and the Chow groups for a cubic hypersurface. On the space of lines meeting a given rational curve, there is the incidence correspondence. This correspondence induces an action on both of the primitive cohomology and the primitive Chow groups. We first show that this action satisfies a quadratic equation. Then the Abel-Jacobi homomorphism induces an isomorphism between the primitive cohomology of the cubic hypersurface and the Prym-Tjurin part of the above action. This also holds for Chow groups with rational coefficients.


The author gives a Prym-Tjurin construction for a cubic hypersurface. In general, for an abelian group \(\Lambda\) and an endomorphism \(\sigma\) of \(\Lambda\), which satisfies the quadratic relation \((\sigma-1)(\sigma+q-1)=0\), the Prym-Tjurin part \(P(\Lambda,\sigma)\) of \(\Lambda\) is defined to be \(\mathrm{Im}(\sigma-1)\). Let \(X\subset\mathbb{P}_{\mathbb{C}}^{n+1}\) be a smooth cubic hypersurface of dimension \(n\geq 3\). Let \(C\subset X\) be a general rational curve of degree \(e\geq 2\), and let \(S_C\) be a natural resolution of the space of lines on \(X\) that meet \(C\). Let \(p_C:P_C\rightarrow S_C\) be the family of lines parametrized by \(S_C\) and let \(q_C:P_C\rightarrow X\) be the natural morphism. Then one has the cylinder homomorphism \(\Phi_C=(p_C)_{*}(q_C)^{*}:H^n(X, \mathbb{Z})\rightarrow H^{n-2}(S_C,\mathbb{Z})\). The author defines an incidence correspondence which induces an action \(\sigma\) on the cohomology groups and the Chow groups of \( S_C\) and proves the following main result of this paper: The action \(\sigma\) satisfies the quadratic relation \((\sigma-1)(\sigma+2e-1)=0\), and the map \(\Phi_C\) induces an isomorphism of Hodge structures \(\Phi_C:H^n(X,\mathbb{Z})_{\mathrm{prim}}\rightarrow P(H^{n-2}(S_C,\mathbb{Z})^{\circ},\sigma)(-1)\), where \(H^{n-2}(S_C,\mathbb{Z})^{\circ}\) denotes a sub-Hodge structure of the cohomology group and ``\((-1)\) means shifting of degree by \((1,1)\). A similar isomorphism is shown to hold between the Chow group of \(X\) and that of \(S_C\).











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