Geometry of Schreieder's varieties and some elliptic and K3 moduli curves

We study the geometry of a class of $n$-dimensional smooth projective varieties constructed by Schreieder for their noteworthy Hodge-theoretic properties. In particular, we realize Schreieder's surfaces as elliptic modular surfaces and Schreieder's threefolds as one-dimensional families of Picard rank $19$ $K3$ surfaces.Comment: 28 pages. Contains arXiv:1603.0561

Chow motives associated to certain algebraic Hecke characters

Shimura and Taniyama proved that if $A$ is a potentially CM abelian variety over a number field $F$ with CM by a field $K$ linearly disjoint from F, then there is an algebraic Hecke character $\lambda_A$ of $K$ such that $L(A/F,s)=L(\lambda_A,s)$. We consider a certain converse to their result. Namely, let $A$ be a potentially CM abelian variety appearing as a factor of the Jacobian of a curve of the form $y^e=\gamma x^f+\delta$. Fix positive integers $a$ and $n$ such that $n/2 < a \leq n$. Under mild conditions on $e, f, \gamma, \delta$, we construct a Chow motive $M$, defined over $F=\mathbb{Q}(\gamma,\delta)$, such that $L(M/F,s)$ and $L(\lambda_A^a\bar{\lambda}_A^{n-a},s)$ have the same Euler factors outside finitely many primes.Comment: 20 page

On product identities and the Chow rings of holomorphic symplectic varieties

For a moduli space $M$ of stable sheaves over a $K3$ surface $X$, we propose a series of conjectural identities in the Chow rings $CH_\star (M \times X^\ell),\, \ell \geq 1,$ generalizing the classic Beauville-Voisin identity for a $K3$ surface. We emphasize consequences of the conjecture for the structure of the tautological subring $R_\star (M) \subset CH_\star (M).$ The conjecture places all tautological classes in the lowest piece of a natural filtration emerging on $CH_\star (M)$, which we also discuss. We prove the proposed identities when $M$ is the Hilbert scheme of points on a $K3$ surface.Comment: A discussion of a natural filtration on the Chow groups of M, emerging from the paper's point of view, was adde