On Modified Diagonal Cycles and the Beauville Decomposition of the Ceresa Cycle

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Main Authors: Lagarde, Lucas, Moakher, Mohamed, Porzio, Morena, Rawson, James, Suárez, Fernando Trejos
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author Lagarde, Lucas
Moakher, Mohamed
Porzio, Morena
Rawson, James
Suárez, Fernando Trejos
author_facet Lagarde, Lucas
Moakher, Mohamed
Porzio, Morena
Rawson, James
Suárez, Fernando Trejos
contents Let $C$ be a curve of genus $g \geq 2$, and let $J$ be its Jacobian. The choice of a degree 1 divisor $e$ on $C$ gives an embedding of $C$ into $J$; we denote by $[C]_{}^{e}\in \mathrm{CH}\left( J;\mathbb{Q} \right) $ the class in the Chow group of $J$ defined by its image. It is known that the vanishing of the Ceresa cycle $\mathrm{Cer}(C,e):=[C]^{e} - [-1]_* [C]^e$ is equivalent to both the vanishing of the 1st Beauville component $[C]_{(1)}^e$ and the vanishing of the 3rd Gross--Kudla--Schoen modified diagonal cycle $Γ^3(C,e) \in \mathrm{CH}(C^3;\mathbb{Q})$. We extend this result to show that the vanishing of the $s$-th Beauville component $[C]^e_{(s)}$ for $s \geq 1$ is equivalent to the vanishing of the $(s+2)$-nd modified diagonal cycle $Γ^{s + 2}(C, e) \in \mathrm{CH}(C^{s+2};\mathbb{Q})$. Moreover, we establish "successive vanishing" results for these cycles. We apply our results to study the rational (non)-triviality of $[C]^{e}_{(s)}$ in the special case $s = 2$. Finally in the $s=1$ case, we show an integral refinement to the original statement, relating the order of torsion of $\mathrm{Cer}(C,e) \in \mathrm{CH}(J;\mathbb{Z})$ to that of $Γ^3(C,e) \in \mathrm{CH}(C^3;\mathbb{Z})$.
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spellingShingle On Modified Diagonal Cycles and the Beauville Decomposition of the Ceresa Cycle
Lagarde, Lucas
Moakher, Mohamed
Porzio, Morena
Rawson, James
Suárez, Fernando Trejos
Algebraic Geometry
Number Theory
14C25, 14C15, 14H40
Let $C$ be a curve of genus $g \geq 2$, and let $J$ be its Jacobian. The choice of a degree 1 divisor $e$ on $C$ gives an embedding of $C$ into $J$; we denote by $[C]_{}^{e}\in \mathrm{CH}\left( J;\mathbb{Q} \right) $ the class in the Chow group of $J$ defined by its image. It is known that the vanishing of the Ceresa cycle $\mathrm{Cer}(C,e):=[C]^{e} - [-1]_* [C]^e$ is equivalent to both the vanishing of the 1st Beauville component $[C]_{(1)}^e$ and the vanishing of the 3rd Gross--Kudla--Schoen modified diagonal cycle $Γ^3(C,e) \in \mathrm{CH}(C^3;\mathbb{Q})$. We extend this result to show that the vanishing of the $s$-th Beauville component $[C]^e_{(s)}$ for $s \geq 1$ is equivalent to the vanishing of the $(s+2)$-nd modified diagonal cycle $Γ^{s + 2}(C, e) \in \mathrm{CH}(C^{s+2};\mathbb{Q})$. Moreover, we establish "successive vanishing" results for these cycles. We apply our results to study the rational (non)-triviality of $[C]^{e}_{(s)}$ in the special case $s = 2$. Finally in the $s=1$ case, we show an integral refinement to the original statement, relating the order of torsion of $\mathrm{Cer}(C,e) \in \mathrm{CH}(J;\mathbb{Z})$ to that of $Γ^3(C,e) \in \mathrm{CH}(C^3;\mathbb{Z})$.
title On Modified Diagonal Cycles and the Beauville Decomposition of the Ceresa Cycle
topic Algebraic Geometry
Number Theory
14C25, 14C15, 14H40
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07416