Francesc Rosselló Llompart and Sebastian Xambó-Descamps
Computing Chow groups.
Algebraic geometry (Sundance, UT, 1986), 220-234, Lecture Notes in Mathematics, 1311, Springer, Berlin, 1988.
Edited by Audun Holme and Robert Speiser.

From the MR review: "In this article the authors give methods to compute the Chow groups of schemes provided with a 'sufficiently nice filtration'. Their result has the useful corollary that the Chow groups of a scheme having a cellular decomposition are free with basis [the classes of] the closures of the cells. These results will be most useful in enumerative geometry, where one often encounters schemes with such decompositions. Indeed, the authors give some nice examples with schemes such as U = Hilb3P2 − Al3P2. Here Hilb3P2 is the Hilbert scheme parameterizing triples of points in P2 and Al3P2 is the subscheme of collinear triples ('Al' stands for 'aligné', which is the French for 'collinear'). If we set U' = Hilb3Pn - Al3Pn and let Gr(2,n) be the Grassmannian of 2-planes in Pn, then there is a map U' → Gr(2,n) which sends a triple of noncollinear points to the unique plane which contains them. This map is locally trivial with fibre U. The authors' results do not quite suffice to compute the Chow groups of U' but they can compute the ranks of these groups and hence the Betti numbers of U'."
MR951648 (89h:14003)


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