Product of Brauer--Manin obstruction for 0-cycles over number fields and function fields

Abstract

It is conjectured that the Brauer--Manin obstruction is expected to control the existence of 0-cycles of degree 1 on smooth proper varieties over number fields. In this paper, we prove that the existence of Brauer--Manin obstruction to Hasse principle for 0-cycles of degree 1 on the product of smooth (non-necessarily proper) varieties is equivalent to the simultaneous existence of such an obstruction on each factor. We also prove an analogous statement for smooth varieties defined over function fields of $\mathbb{C}((t))$-curves.

13 pages. Comments are welcome