Birch–Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture for the Picard variety

Let XX be a smooth projective geometrically connected variety over a finitely generated field KK, with a smooth projective model f:XYf:{\mathcal X}\to{\mathcal Y} as above, and let d=dimXd=\dim X. Write Φi(s)\Phi_i(s) for the Euler product formed from the degree-ii étale cohomology of the fibers, and let PicX/K0\operatorname{Pic}^0_{X/K} be the identity component of the Picard scheme. Birch–Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture. The rank of PicX/K0(K)\operatorname{Pic}^0_{X/K}(K) equals the order of the zero of Φ1(s)\Phi_1(s) at s=dim(Y)s=\dim({\mathcal Y}), and, by duality, the order of the zero of Φ2d1(s)\Phi_{2d-1}(s) at s=dim(X)1s=\dim({\mathcal X})-1. This is the function-field Birch–Swinnerton-Dyer-type prediction for the Picard variety and is not known in general.

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Veronika Ertl, Timo Keller and Yanshuai Qin, “Comparison of different Tate conjectures”, arXiv:2012.01337 (2025).

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