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| Jul 28, 2010 at 19:36 | comment | added | Tony Scholl | If you believe the Tate conjectures, then every motive belongs to the tensor category generated by motives of curves. I recall from somewhere that Grothendieck had the idea to prove the Weil conjectures by covering varieties with products of curves; then Serre found a surface that couldn't be covered rationally by a product of curves (see Grothendieck-Serre correspondence, 31/3/1964). | |
| Jul 28, 2010 at 16:55 | history | answered | Donu Arapura | CC BY-SA 2.5 |