Rang de courbes elliptiques liees a certaines extensions cycliques de degre 4 et 6
If denotes the variety of irreducible plane curves of degree with exactly nodes as singularities, Diaz and Harris (1986) have conjectured that is a torsion group. In this note we study rational equivalence on some families of singular plane curves and we prove, in particular, that is a finite group, so that the conjecture holds for . Actually the order of is , the group being cyclic if is odd and the product of and a cyclic group of order if is even.