The fundamental group and extensions of motives of Jacobians of curves

Abstract

In this paper we construct extensions of mixed Hodge structures coming from the mixed Hodge structure on the graded quotients of the group ring of the fundamental group of a smooth, projective, pointed curve. These extensions correspond to the regulators of certain motivic cycles in the Jacobian of the curve which were constructed by Beilinson and Bloch. This leads to a new iterated integral expression for the regulator. This is a generalisation of a theorem of Colombo where she constructed the extension corresponding to Collino's cycles in the Jacobian of a hyperelliptic curve.