Height comparison conjecture for nodal odd-dimensional hypersurfaces

Let X0X_0 be an odd-dimensional geometrically integral projective hypersurface of degree at least three over a number field, with a single nodal singularity. Let QQ be the exceptional quadric in the blow-up of X0X_0 at the node, and let the two different rulings of QQ determine a difference whose Beilinson--Bloch height is defined. Let a smoothing deformation of X0X_0 determine a limit mixed Hodge structure with biextension height. Height comparison conjecture. The following two real numbers coincide, up to an element of QlogQ×\mathbb{Q} \cdot \log |\mathbb{Q}^\times|: the Beilinson--Bloch height of the difference of the two different rulings on QQ and the biextension height of the limit mixed Hodge structure determined by any smoothing deformation of X0X_0. This conjecture relates an arithmetic height associated with the exceptional quadric to a Hodge-theoretic height of the degeneration; the cited works provide the relevant notions, while the supplied source does not state a resolution.

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Spencer Bloch, Robin de Jong and Emre Can Sertöz, “Heights on curves and limits of Hodge structures”, arXiv:2206.01220 (2023).

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