Deligne-Hodge-DeRham theory with coefficients

Let ${\cal L}$ be a variation of Hodge structures on the complement $X^{*}$ of a normal crossing divisor (NCD) $Y$ in a smooth analytic variety $X$ and let $j: X^{*} = X - Y \to X$ denotes the open embedding. The purpose of this paper is to describe the weight filtration $W$ on a combinatorial logarithmic complex computing the (higher) direct image ${\bf j}_{*}{\cal L}$, underlying a mixed Hodge complex when $X$ is proper, proving in this way the results in the note [14] generalizing the constant coefficients case. When a morphism $f: X \to D$ to a complex disc is given with $Y = f^{-1}(0)$, the weight filtration on the complex of nearby cocycles $\Psi_f ({\cal L})$ on $Y$ can be described by these logarithmic techniques and a comparison theorem shows that the filtration coincides with the weight defined by the logarithm of the monodromy which provides the link with various results on the subject.