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Algebraic cycles on the relative symmetric powers and on the relative Jacobian of a family of curves. II

Part of: Cycles and subschemes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2010

Ben Moonen  and
Alexander Polishchuk
Ben Moonen
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Amsterdam, PO Box 94248, 1090 GE Amsterdam, The Netherlands, ([email protected])
Alexander Polishchuk
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403, USA, ([email protected])
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Abstract

Let C be a family of curves over a non-singular variety S. We study algebraic cycles on the relative symmetric powers C[n] and on the relative Jacobian J. We consider the Chow homology CH*(C[∙]/S) := ⊕n CH*(C[n]/S) as a ring using the Pontryagin product. We prove that CH*(C[∙]/S) is isomorphic to CH*(J/S)[t]〈u〉, the PD-polynomial algebra (variable: u) over the usual polynomial ring (variable: t) over CH*(J/S). We give two such isomorphisms that over a general base are different. Further we give precise results on how CH*(J/S) sits embedded in CH*(C[∙]/S) and we give an explicit geometric description of how the operators and ∂u act. This builds upon the study of certain geometrically defined operators Pi,j (a) that was undertaken by one of us.

Our results give rise to a new grading on CH*(J/S). The associated descending filtration is stable under all operators [N]*, and [N]* acts on as multiplication by Nm. Hence, after − ⊗ ℚ this filtration coincides with the one coming from Beauville's decomposition. The grading we obtain is in general different from Beauville's.

Finally, we give a version of our main result for tautological classes, and we show how our methods give a simple geometric proof of some relations obtained by Herbaut and van der Geer–Kouvidakis, as later refined by one of us.

Keywords

symmetric products of curvesJacobiansChow ringsalgebraic cyclesmotives

MSC classification

Secondary: 14C15: (Equivariant) Chow groups and rings; motives 14C25: Algebraic cycles
Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of the Institute of Mathematics of Jussieu , Volume 9 , Issue 4 , October 2010 , pp. 799 - 846
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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