Representability of Chow groups of codimension three cycles

Abstract

Assume that we have a fibration of smooth projective varieties X → S over a surface S such that X is of dimension four and that the geometric generic fiber has finite-dimensional motive and the first étale cohomology of the geometric generic fiber with respect to ℚ l coefficients is zero and the second étale cohomology is spanned by divisors. We prove that then A 3(X), the group of codimension three algebraically trivial cycles modulo rational equivalence, is dominated by finitely many copies of A 0(S); this means that there exist finitely many correspondences Γi on S × X such that Σ i Γi is surjective from A 2(S) to A 3(X).