Abstract:
We prove that the Grothendieck standard conjecture of Lefschetz type holds
for a smooth complex projective $4$-dimensional variety $X$
fibred by Abelian varieties (possibly, with degeneracies)
over a smooth projective curve if the endomorphism ring $\operatorname{End}_{\overline{\kappa(\eta)}} (X_\eta\otimes_{\kappa(\eta)}\overline{\kappa(\eta)})$ of the generic
geometric fibre is not
an order
of an imaginary quadratic field. This condition
holds automatically in the cases when the reduction of the generic scheme fibre $X_\eta$ at some
place of the curve is semistable in the sense of Grothendieck and has
odd toric rank or the generic geometric fibre is not a simple Abelian variety.