Talks and Seminars

SAG: Rationally Inequivalent Points on Generic Hypersurfaces

by Xi Chen (Alberta/Bonn)

Europe/Berlin
MPIM, Vivatsgasse, 7 - Lecture Hall (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics)

MPIM, Vivatsgasse, 7 - Lecture Hall

Max Planck Institute for Mathematics

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Description

For a smooth surface of degree at least 4 in ${\mathbb
P}^3$, Mumford proved that its Chow group of 0-cycles are nontrivial.
As the degree increases, we are expecting the group to become larger
in some sense. Voisin proved that no two distinct points are
rationally equivalent on a very general surface of degree at least 7.
We improved her result to degree 6, which is optimal. This is a joint
work with James D. Lewis and Mao Sheng.