Higher direct images of log canonical divisors and positivity theorems

In this short note, we consider the conjecture that the log canonical divisor (resp. the anti-log canonical divisor) $K_X + \Delta$ (resp. $-(K_X + \Delta)$) on a pair $(X, \Delta)$ consisting of a complex projective manifold $X$ and a reduced simply normal crossing divisor $\Delta$ on $X$ is ample if it is numerically positive. More precisely, we prove the conjecture for $K_X + \Delta$ with $\Delta \neq 0$ in dimension 4 and for $-(K_X + \Delta)$ with $\Delta \neq 0$ in dime...

In a beautiful paper Deligne and Illusie proved the degeneration of the Hodge-to-de Rham spectral sequence using positive characteristic methods. In a recent paper Arinkin, C\u{a}ld\u{a}raru and the author of this paper gave a geometric interpretation of the problem of Deligne-Illusie showing that the triviality of a certain line bundle on a derived scheme implies the the Deligne-Illusie result. In the present paper we generalize these ideas to logarithmic schemes and using t...

In this paper we explain how non-abelian Hodge theory allows one to compute the $L^2$ cohomology or middle perversity higher direct images of harmonic bundles and twistor D-modules in a purely algebraic manner. Our main result is a new algebraic description for the fiberwise $L^2$ cohomology of a tame harmonic bundle or the corre- sponding flat bundle or tame polystable parabolic Higgs bundle. Specifically we give a formula for the Dolbeault version of the $L^2$ pushforward i...

We study the Fujita-type conjecture proposed by Popa and Schnell. We obtain an effective bound on the global generation of direct images of pluri-adjoint line bundles on the regular locus. We also obtain an effective bound on the generic global generation for a Kawamata log canonical $\mathbb{Q}$-pair. We use analytic methods such as $L^2$ estimates, $L^2$ extensions and injective theorems of cohomology groups.

We study restriction of logarithmic Higgs bundles to the boundary divisor and we construct the corresponding nearby-cycles functor in positive characteristic. As applications we prove some strong semipositivity theorems for analogs of complex polarized variations of Hodge structures and their generalizations. This implies, e.g., semipositivity for the relative canonical divisor of a semistable reduction in positive characteristic and it gives some new strong results generaliz...

We show that the direct image of the filtered logarithmic de Rham complex is a direct sum of filtered logarithmic complexes with coefficients in variations of Hodge structures, using a generalization of the decomposition theorem of Beilinson, Bernstein and Deligne to the case of filtered $D$-modules. The advantage of using the logarithmic complexes is that we have the strictness of the Hodge filtration by Deligne after taking the cohomology group in the projective case. As a ...

This is an expository article on the recent developments of Hodge theory on moduli spaces of smooth projective varieties with semi-ample canonical line bundles.

We give an overview of partial positivity conditions for line bundles, mostly from a cohomological point of view. Although the current work is to a large extent of expository nature, we present some minor improvements over the existing literature and a new result: a Kodaira-type vanishing theorem for effective q-ample Du Bois divisors and log canonical pairs.

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] ...

We generalize the logarithmic decomposition theorem of Deligne-Illusie to a filtered version. There are two applications. The easier one provides a mod $p$ proof for a vanishing theorem in characteristic zero. The deeper one gives rise to a positive characteristic analogue of a theorem of Deligne on the mixed Hodge structure attached to complex algebraic varieties.