Beilinson--Bloch positivity conjectures

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Let XX be a smooth projective variety of dimension dd over a global field, and let LL be the Lefschetz operator induced by an ample line bundle. Write CH⁡homp(X)Q\operatorname{CH}^p_{\mathrm{hom}}(X)_{\mathbb{Q}} for the rational homologically trivial codimension-pp Chow group, and let ⟨  ⟩X\langle\,\ \rangle_X denote the Beilinson--Bloch height pairing.

Beilinson--Bloch positivity conjectures. For p≤d+12p\leq \frac{d+1}{2}, the map

Ld+1−2p ⁣:CH⁡homp(X)Q→CH⁡homd+1−p(X)QL^{d+1-2p}\colon \operatorname{CH}^p_{\mathrm{hom}}(X)_{\mathbb{Q}}\to \operatorname{CH}^{d+1-p}_{\mathrm{hom}}(X)_{\mathbb{Q}}

is an isomorphism. If z∈CH⁡homp(X)Q∖{0}z\in \operatorname{CH}^p_{\mathrm{hom}}(X)_{\mathbb{Q}}\setminus\{0\} is primitive, meaning that Ld+2−2pz=0L^{d+2-2p}z=0, then

(−1)p⟨z,Ld+1−2pz⟩X>0.(-1)^p\langle z,L^{d+1-2p}z\rangle_X>0.

These conjectures generalize the positivity of the Néron--Tate pairing on abelian varieties to Beilinson--Bloch height pairings on arbitrary smooth projective varieties. Their status is not resolved in the supplied text.

References

Primary source

Zhelun Chen, “Degeneration of the archimedean height pairing of algebraically trivial cycles”, arXiv:2512.22788 (2025).

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