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Irregular Hodge theory

Algebraic Geometry 2018-12-17 v5

Abstract

We introduce a category of possibly irregular holonomic D-modules which can be endowed in a canonical way with an irregular Hodge filtration. Mixed Hodge modules with their Hodge filtration naturally belong to this category, as well as their twist by expφ\exp\varphi for any meromorphic function φ\varphi. This category is stable by various standard functors, which produce many more filtered objects. The irregular Hodge filtration satisfies the E1E_1-degeneration property by a projective morphism. This generalizes some results proved by Esnault-Sabbah-Yu arxiv:1302.4537 and Sabbah-Yu arxiv:1406.1339. We also show that those rigid irreducible holonomic D-modules on the complex projective line whose local formal monodromies have eigenvalues of absolute value one, are equipped with such an irregular Hodge filtration in a canonical way, up to a shift of the filtration. In a chapter written jointly with Jeng-Daw~Yu, we make explicit the case of irregular mixed Hodge structures, for which we prove in particular a Thom-Sebastiani formula.

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@article{arxiv.1511.00176,
  title  = {Irregular Hodge theory},
  author = {Claude Sabbah},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.00176},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

V3: 69 pages. An error in Section 7.b corrected and Section 7.b rewritten. Appendix B added. Various improvements. V4: 126 pages, Major revision: (1) title changed; (2) A simplification suggested by T. Mochizuki; (3) Chapter 3 added, written in collaboration with Jeng-Daw Yu; (4) various other improvements; V5: Final version to be published in Mem. SMF vol. 156

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