Finite-dimensionality and cycles on powers of K3 surfaces

Abstract

For a K3 surface S, consider the subring of CH(S^n) generated by divisor and diagonal classes (with Q-coefficients). Voisin conjectures that the restriction of the cycle class map to this ring is injective. We prove that Voisin's conjecture is equivalent to the finite-dimensionality of S in the sense of Kimura-O'Sullivan. As a consequence, we obtain examples of S whose Hilbert schemes satisfy the Beauville-Voisin conjecture.