Joint meeting of the AMS, DMV, and ÖMG

Special session on algebraic cycles
Eric Friedlander, Marc Levine and Fabien Morel, organizers

Session II: Saturday June 18, 12:30-15:00

12:30-13:20

Speaker: Claire Voisin

Title: Torsion cycles on complex projective manifolds

Abstract: We use a construction due to Kollár to construct torsion cohomology classes of any possible prime order on complex projective manifolds of fixed dimension, which are not algebraic, but become algebraic under small deformations. We also use similar degenerations to exhibit torsion cycles, non trivial modulo algebraic equivalence, and which sit in an arbitrarily large level of the Hiroshi Saito filtration on Chow groups.