Curves and cycles on K3 surfaces

The notion of constant cycle curves on K3 surfaces is introduced. These are curves that do not contribute to the Chow group of the ambient K3 surface. Rational curves are the most prominent examples. We show that constant cycle curves behave in some respects like rational curves. E.g. using Hodge theory one finds that in each linear system there are at most finitely many such curves of bounded order. Over finite fields, any curve is expected to be a constant cycle curve, whereas over number fields this does not hold. The relation to the Bloch--Beilinson conjectures for K3 surfaces over global fields is discussed.Comment: 44 pages, minor revision, reference adde

Torsion order of smooth projective surfaces

To a smooth projective variety $X$ whose Chow group of $0$-cycles is $\mathbf Q$-universally trivial one can associate its torsion index $\mathrm{Tor}(X)$, the smallest multiple of the diagonal appearing in a cycle-theoretic decomposition \`a la Bloch-Srinivas. We show that $\mathrm{Tor}(X)$ is the exponent of the torsion in the N\'eron-Severi-group of $X$ when $X$ is a surface over an algebraically closed field $k$, up to a power of the exponential characteristic of $k$.Comment: A few more minor changes in Colliot-Th\'el\`ene's appendi

Mean Field Limit for Coulomb-Type Flows

We establish the mean-field convergence for systems of points evolving along the gradient flow of their interaction energy when the interaction is the Coulomb potential or a super-coulombic Riesz potential, for the first time in arbitrary dimension. The proof is based on a modulated energy method using a Coulomb or Riesz distance, assumes that the solutions of the limiting equation are regular enough and exploits a weak-strong stability property for them. The method can handle the addition of a regular interaction kernel, and applies also to conservative and mixed flows. In the appendix, it is also adapted to prove the mean-field convergence of the solutions to Newton's law with Coulomb or Riesz interaction in the monokinetic case to solutions of an Euler-Poisson type system.Comment: Final version with expanded introduction, to appear in Duke Math Journal. 35 page