Colliot-Thélène's local-to-global conjecture for zero-cycles

For a number field KK, let XX be a smooth projective geometrically connected variety defined over KK. Let CH0(X)\operatorname{CH}_0(X) be the Chow group of zero-cycles, let CH0,A(X)\operatorname{CH}_{0,\mathbb A}(X) be its adelic analogue, and write A^=limnA/nA\widehat{A}=\varprojlim_n A/nA for the profinite completion of an abelian group AA. The diagonal map induces a complex

CH0(X)^ΔCH0,A(X)^εHom(Br(X),Q/Z).\widehat{\operatorname{CH}_0(X)}\xrightarrow{\Delta}\widehat{\operatorname{CH}_{0,\mathbb A}(X)}\xrightarrow{\varepsilon}\operatorname{Hom}(\operatorname{Br}(X),\mathbb{Q}/\mathbb{Z}).

Colliot-Thélène's conjecture. The complex above is exact.

This conjecture asserts that the Brauer–Manin obstruction is the only obstruction to the local-to-global principle for zero-cycles. It is a central zero-cycle analogue of the corresponding principle for rational points; the supplied text does not state a resolution.

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Primary source

Michael Wills, “On the Local-to-Global Principle for Zero-Cycles on Self Products of Elliptic Curves with CM”, arXiv:2509.13641 (2025).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2022–2025). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2211.15915.

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