The cancellation conjecture for effective Chow motives

Let kk be a field, and let NN and MM be effective Chow motives. Write [N][N] and [M][M] for their classes in the Grothendieck ring K0(Mk)K_0(M_k) of effective Chow motives, and let A(N)A^*(N) denote the Chow groups of a motive NN with rational coefficients.

Cancellation conjecture for effective Chow motives. If

[N]=[M][N]=[M]

in K0(Mk)K_0(M_k), then MM and NN are isomorphic. In particular, they have the same Chow groups with rational coefficients.

The claim would remove the finite-dimensionality restriction in the preceding cancellation argument, where equality in the Grothendieck ring only yields stable isomorphism and equality of Chow groups after adding a motive with finite-dimensional Chow groups. The source gives no resolution of this conjecture.

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Primary source

Lothar Goettsche, “On the motive of the Hilbert scheme of points on a surface”, arXiv:math/0007043 (2000).

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