On relations among 1-cycles on cubic hypersurfaces

Abstract: In this paper we give two explicit relations among 1-cycles modulo rational equivalence on a smooth cubic hypersurfaces

X

. Such a relation is given in terms of a (pair of) curve(s) and its secant lines. As the first application, we reprove Paranjape's theorem that

m a t h r m {C H}_{1} (X)

is always generated by lines and that it is isomorphic to

if the dimension of

X

is at least 5. Another application is to the intermediate jacobian of a cubic threefold

X

. To be more precise, we show that the intermediate jacobian of

X

is naturally isomorphic to the Prym-Tjurin variety constructed from the curve parameterizing all lines meeting a given curve on

X

. The incidence correspondences play an important role in this study. We also give a description of the Abel-Jacobi map for 1-cycles in this setting.

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