Some remarks on Chow correspondences
Pablo Pelaez
TL;DR
The paper characterizes when a Chow correspondence $\Lambda$ induces the zero map on the Albanese level by translating the problem into the motivic setting of $DM_k$ and the orthogonal filtration. It introduces a criterion involving the functor of points of the Albanese variety $\mathcal{A}$ and its orthogonal cover $bc_{\leq -1}$, linking the vanishing of $\psi$ to a lift through $bc_{\leq -1}(\mathcal{A})$ and to the zero–motive component in the orthogonal filtration. Moreover, it shows that the orthogonal filtration detects square-equivalence to zero and the $H^{*2}$ step of H. Saito's filtration, with stronger conclusions available over $\mathbb{C}$ under appropriate hypotheses. The results provide a motivic perspective on a classical question about algebraic cycles, Albanese kernels, and regular homomorphisms, and they illuminate how filtrations in Voevodsky’s framework control geometric equivalence relations on Chow groups. Overall, the work ties birational and cohomological refinements to concrete cycle-theoretic criteria via motivic functors and the Albanese formalism.
Abstract
We study, in the context of Voevodsky's triangulated category of motives, several adequate equivalence relations (in the sense of Samuel) on the graded Chow ring $CH^\ast (X\times Y)$ for $X$, $Y$ smooth projective varieties over a field.
