Filtrations of the Chow group of zero-cycles on abelian varieties and behavior under isogeny

TL;DR

This paper studies a filtration on the Chow group of zero-cycles on abelian varieties, showing its compatibility with isogenies and relating it to known filtrations, with applications to elliptic curves and conjectures over p-adic fields.

Contribution

It demonstrates the behavior of the filtration under isogenies and establishes its equivalence with other known filtrations in special cases, extending understanding of zero-cycle structures.

Findings

Filtration behaves well under isogeny, with push-forward given by multiplication by n^r.

In the product of elliptic curves, the filtration matches Raskind-Spies and Pontryagin filtrations.

Provides evidence for conjectures relating to the kernel of the Albanese map over p-adic fields.

Abstract

For an abelian variety $A$ over a field $k$ the author defined in \cite{Gazaki2015} a Bloch-Beilinson type filtration $\{F^r(A)\}_{r\geq 0}$ of the Chow group of zero-cycles, $\text{CH}_0(A)$, with successive quotients related to a Somekawa $K$-group. In this article we show that this filtration behaves well with respect to isogeny, and in particular if $n:A\to A$ is the multiplication by $n$ map on $A$, then its push-forward $n_\star$ is given on the quotient $F^r/F^{r+1}$ by multiplication by $n^r$. In the special case when $A=E_1\times\cdots\times E_d$ is a product of elliptic curves, we show that this filtration agrees with a filtration defined by Raskind and Spiess and with the Pontryagin filtration previously considered by Beauville and Bloch. We also obtain some results in the more general case when $A$ is isogenous to a product of elliptic curves. When $k$ is a finite extension of $\mathbb{Q}_p$, using Jacobians of curves isogenous to products of elliptic curves, we give new evidence for a conjecture of Raskind and Spiess and Colliot-Th\'{e}l\`{e}ne, which predicts that the kernel of the Albanese map is the direct sum of a divisible group and a finite group.