LIE FU AND ROBERT LATERVEERABSTRACT. O'Grady conjectured that the Chow group of 0-cycles of the generic fiber of the universal family over the moduli space of polarized K3 surfaces of genus g is cyclic. This socalled generalized Franchetta conjecture has been solved only for low genera where there is a Mukai model (precisely, when g ≤ 10 and g = 12, 13, 16, 18, 20), by the work of Pavic-Shen-Yin. In this paper, as a non-commutative analogue, we study the Franchetta property for families of special cubic fourfolds (in the sense of Hassett), and relate it to O'Grady's conjecture for K3 surfaces. Most notably, by using special cubic fourfolds of discriminant 26, we prove O'Grady's generalized Franchetta conjecture for g = 14, providing the first evidence beyond Mukai models.
CONTENTS L| Ct ≃ ω ⊗mCt , for some m ∈ Z. Franchetta's conjecture was proved by Harer [Har83] (see also [AC87] and [Mes87]).