We prove that the Deligne–Beilinson cohomology sheaves
are torsion-free
as a consequence of the Bloch–Kato conjectures as proven by Rost and Voevodsky. This
implies that
if
is unirational.
For a surface
with
we show that the Albanese kernel, identified with
, can
be characterized using the integral part of the sheaves associated to the Hodge
filtration.