Cohomologie non ramifiée et conjecture de Hodge entière

Abstract

Building upon the Bloch–Kato conjecture in Milnor K-theory, we relate the third unramified cohomology group with Q/Z coefficients with a group which measures the failure of the integral Hodge conjecture in degree 4. As a first consequence, a geometric theorem of Voisin implies that the third unramified cohomology group with Q/Z coefficients vanishes on all uniruled threefolds. As a second consequence, a 1989 example by Colliot-Thélène and Ojanguren implies that the integral Hodge conjecture in degree 4 fails for unirational varieties of dimension at least 6. For certain classes of threefolds fibered over a curve, we establish a relation between the integral Hodge conjecture and the computation of the index of the generic fiber.