Chow groups of intersections of quadrics via homological projective duality and (Jacobians of) non-commutative motives

Abstract

Conjectures of Beilinson-Bloch type predict that the low-degree rational Chow groups of intersections of quadrics are one-dimensional. This conjecture was proved by Otwinowska in [20]. By making use of homological projective duality and the recent theory of (Jacobians of) non-commutative motives, we give an alternative proof of this conjecture in the case of a complete intersection of either two quadrics or three odd-dimensional quadrics. Moreover, we prove that in these cases the unique non-trivial algebraic Jacobian is the middle one. As an application, we make use of Vial's work [26], [27] to describe the rational Chow motives of these complete intersections and show that smooth fibrations into such complete intersections over bases S of small dimension satisfy Murre's conjecture (when dim(S) [less than or equal to] 1), Grothendieck's standard conjecture of Lefschetz type (when dim(S) [less than or equal to] 2), and Hodge's conjecture (when dim(S) [less than or equal to] 3).