Symmetric powers do not stabilize

DOI10.1090/S0002-9939-2014-12155-1MaRDI QIDQ2930619zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Daniel Litt

Publication date 19 November 2014

Published in Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1209.4708

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

(Equivariant) Chow groups and rings; motives (14C15) Algebraic cycles (14C25) Applications of methods of algebraic (K)-theory in algebraic geometry (14C35) Zeta functions and related questions in algebraic geometry (e.g., Birch-Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture) (14G10)

Abstract: We discuss the stabilization of symmetric products Sym^n(X) of a smooth projective variety X in the Grothendieck ring of varieties. For smooth projective surfaces X with non-zero h^0(X, omega_X), these products do not stabilize; we conditionally show that they do not stabilize in another related sense, in response to a question of R. Vakil and M. Wood. There are analogies between such stabilization, the Dold-Thom theorem, and the analytic class number formula. Finally, we discuss Hodge-theoretic obstructions to the stabilization of symmetric products, and provide evidence for these obstructions in terms of a relationship between the Newton polygon of a certain "motivic zeta function" associated to a curve, and its Hodge polygon.

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