## Tohoku Mathematical Journal

### Remarks on motives of abelian type

Charles Vial

#### Abstract

A motive over a field $k$ is of abelian type if it belongs to the thick and rigid subcategory of Chow motives spanned by the motives of abelian varieties over $k$. This paper contains three sections of independent interest. First, we show that a motive which becomes of abelian type after a base field extension of algebraically closed fields is of abelian type. Given a field extension $K/k$ and a motive $M$ over $k$, we also show that $M$ is finite-dimensional if and only if $M_K$ is finite-dimensional. As a corollary, we obtain Chow–Künneth decompositions for varieties that become isomorphic to an abelian variety after some field extension. Second, let $\varOmega$ be a universal domain containing $k$. We show that Murre's conjectures for motives of abelian type over $k$ reduce to Murre's conjecture (D) for products of curves over $\varOmega$. In particular, we show that Murre's conjecture (D) for products of curves over $\varOmega$ implies Beauville's vanishing conjecture on abelian varieties over $k$. Finally, we give criteria on Chow groups for a motive to be of abelian type. For instance, we show that $M$ is of abelian type if and only if the total Chow group of algebraically trivial cycles $\mathrm{CH}_*(M_\varOmega)_\mathrm{alg}$ is spanned, via the action of correspondences, by the Chow groups of products of curves. We also show that a morphism of motives $f: N \rightarrow M$, with $N$ finite-dimensional, which induces a surjection $f_* : \mathrm{CH}_*(N_\varOmega)_\mathrm{alg} \rightarrow \mathrm{CH}_*(M_\varOmega)_\mathrm{alg}$ also induces a surjection $f_* : \mathrm{CH}_*(N_\varOmega)_\mathrm{hom} \rightarrow \mathrm{CH}_*(M_\varOmega)_\mathrm{hom}$ on homologically trivial cycles.

#### Article information

Source
Tohoku Math. J. (2), Volume 69, Number 2 (2017), 195-220.

Dates
First available in Project Euclid: 24 June 2017

https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.tmj/1498269623

Digital Object Identifier
doi:10.2748/tmj/1498269623

Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet)
MR3682163

Zentralblatt MATH identifier
06775252

#### Citation

Vial, Charles. Remarks on motives of abelian type. Tohoku Math. J. (2) 69 (2017), no. 2, 195--220. doi:10.2748/tmj/1498269623. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.tmj/1498269623

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