Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 October 2013
For certain product varieties, Murre's conjecture on Chow groups is investigated. More precisely, let k be an algebraically closed field, X be a smooth projective variety over k and C be a smooth projective irreducible curve over k with function field K. Then we prove that if X (resp. XK) satisfies Murre's conjectures (A) and (B) for a set of Chow-Künneth projectors {, 0 ≤ i ≤ 2dim X} of X (resp. for {()K} of XK) and if for any j, , then the product variety X × C also satisfies Murre's conjectures (A) and (B). As consequences, it is proved that if C is a curve and X is an elliptic modular threefold over k (an algebraically closed field of characteristic 0) or an abelian variety of dimension 3, then Murre's conjecture (B) is true for the fourfold X × C.