Higher Tate traces of Chow motives

Charles De Clercq; Anne Quéguiner-Mathieu

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Higher Tate traces of Chow motives

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From the journal Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik (Crelles Journal) Volume 2024 Issue 815

Abstract

We establish the complete classification of Chow motives of projective homogeneous varieties for p-inner semi-simple algebraic groups, with coefficients in ℤ / p ⁢ ℤ . Our results involve a new motivic invariant, the Tate trace of a motive, defined as a pure Tate summand of maximal rank. They apply more generally to objects of the Tate subcategory generated by upper motives of irreducible, geometrically split varieties satisfying the nilpotence principle. Using Chernousov–Gille–Merkurjev decompositions and their interpretation through Bialynicki–Birula–Hesselink–Iversen filtrations due to Brosnan, we then generalize the characterization of the motivic equivalence of inner semi-simple groups through the higher Tits p-indexes. We also define the motivic splitting pattern and the motivic splitting towers of a summand of the motive of a projective homogeneous variety, which correspond for quadrics to the classical splitting pattern and Knebusch tower of the underlying quadratic form.

Acknowledgements

We are grateful to Skip Garibaldi, Stefan Gille, Nikita Karpenko, Srimathy Srinivasan and Alexander Vishik for their comments on a preliminary version of this paper, and insightful discussions.

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