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Topology of projective Tate-Shafarevich twists

Algebraic Geometry 2026-04-14 v2 Differential Geometry

Abstract

A Tate-Shafarevich twist XϕBX^\phi\to B of a fibration XBX\to B modifies it by a 11-cocycle of flows of vector fields relative to the base, locally in the analytic topology. Sacc\`a conjectured that the total spaces of two projective Lagrangian fibrations related by such a twist are deformation-equivalent. Assuming that the class of the twist is torsion (which is often equivalent to the twist being realizable in the \'etale topology), we show that there is an isomorphism H(X;Q)H(Xϕ;Q)H^\ast(X;\mathbb Q)\cong H^\ast(X^\phi;\mathbb Q) of graded vector spaces that respects (1) the Hodge structures and (2) the Hodge-Riemann pairing. Consequently, the rational Beauville-Bogomolov-Fujiki lattices of these two spaces are Hodge-similar. Assuming further that BB is smooth, and both the original fibration and its twist admit CC^\infty-sections, we show Sacc\`a's conjecture using the theory of degenerate twistor deformations.

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@article{arxiv.2602.21554,
  title  = {Topology of projective Tate-Shafarevich twists},
  author = {David Zhiyuan Bai},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.21554},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

20 pages. v2: added some references; modified the statement of Theorem 0.6; removed dependence on [10]