Torsion phenomena for zero-cycles on a product of curves over a number field.

For a smooth projective variety X over an algebraic number field k a conjecture of Bloch and Beilinson predicts that the kernel of the Albanese map of X is a torsion group. In this article we consider a product X = C 1 × ⋯ × C d of smooth projective curves and show that if the conjecture is true for any subproduct of two curves, then it is true for X. For a product X = C 1 × C 2 of two curves over Q with positive genus we construct many nontrivial examples that satisfy the weaker property that the image of the natural map J 1 (Q) ⊗ J 2 (Q) → ε CH 0 (C 1 × C 2) is finite, where J i is the Jacobian variety of C i . Our constructions include many new examples of non-isogenous pairs of elliptic curves E 1 , E 2 with positive rank, including the first known examples of rank greater than 1. Combining these constructions with our previous result, we obtain infinitely many nontrivial products X = C 1 × ⋯ × C d for which the analogous map ε has finite image. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]