A surface with representable $\text{CH}_{0}$-group but no universal zero-cycle

Abstract

We introduce a new obstruction to the existence of a universal $0$-cycle on a smooth projective complex variety. As an application, we construct a smooth projective complex surface whose Chow group of $0$-cycles is representable but which does not admit a universal $0$-cycle. This provides a two-dimensional analogue of Voisin's recent threefold counterexample to a question of Colliot-Th\'el\`ene. As a further consequence, we exhibit the first example of a smooth projective threefold of Kodaira dimension zero carrying a non-torsion Hodge class of degree $4$ that is not algebraic. The construction relies on the geometry of bielliptic surfaces of type 2.