On fake linear cycles inside Fermat varieties

Duque Franco, Jorge; Villaflor Loyola, Roberto

doi:10.2140/ant.2023.17.1847

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On fake linear cycles inside Fermat varieties

Jorge Duque Franco and Roberto Villaflor Loyola

Vol. 17 (2023), No. 10, 1847–1865

DOI: 10.2140/ant.2023.17.1847

Abstract

We introduce a new class of Hodge cycles with nonreduced associated Hodge loci; we call them fake linear cycles. We characterize them for all Fermat varieties and show that they exist only for degrees $d = 3, 4, 6$ , where there are infinitely many in the space of Hodge cycles. These cycles are pathological in the sense that the Zariski tangent space of their associated Hodge locus is of maximal dimension, contrary to a conjecture of Movasati. They provide examples of algebraic cycles not generated by their periods in the sense of Movasati and Sertöz (2021). To study them we compute their Galois action in cohomology and their second-order invariant of the IVHS. We conclude that for any degree $d \geq 2 + \frac{6}{n}$ , the minimal codimension component of the Hodge locus passing through the Fermat variety is the one parametrizing hypersurfaces containing linear subvarieties of dimension $\frac{n}{2}$ , extending results of Green, Voisin, Otwinowska and Villaflor Loyola.

Keywords

fake linear cycles, algebraic cycles, Hodge locus, Noether–Lefschetz locus, Galois cohomology, second-order invariant IVHS

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Primary: 14C25, 14C30, 14D07

Milestones

Received: 6 January 2022

Revised: 6 August 2022

Accepted: 28 November 2022

Published: 19 September 2023

Authors

Jorge Duque Franco
Departamento de Matemáticas Universidad de Chile Santiago Chile

Roberto Villaflor Loyola
Facultad de Matemáticas Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Santiago Chile

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Vol. 17, No. 10, 2023