On a Hodge locus

Abstract

There are many instances such that deformation space of the homology class of an algebraic cycle as a Hodge cycle is larger than its deformation space as algebraic cycle. This phenomena can occur for algebraic cycles inside hypersurfaces, however, we are only able to gather evidences for it by computer experiments. In this article we describe one example of this for cubic hypersurfaces. The verification of the mentioned phenomena in this case is proposed as the first GADEPs problem. The main goal is either to verify the (variational) Hodge conjecture in such a case or gather evidences that it might produce a counterexample to the Hodge conjecture.