Kodaira-Saito vanishing for the irregular Hodge filtration
Claude Sabbah
TL;DR
The paper extends Kodaira-Saito vanishing to the irregular Hodge filtration for irregular mixed Hodge modules by refining the foundational IrrMHM framework. It leverages Mochizuki21 to fix coherence issues via Malgrange extensions, rescalings along a tau-parameter, and tau-specializability, culminating in a robust category Cresc(X) and an improved IrrMHM(X). The main result demonstrates vanishings for the irregular Hodge graded de Rham complexes $\mathrm{gr}^{F^{irr}}\mathrm{pDR}(\mathcal{M})$ twisted by an ample line bundle, with symmetric vanishing for twists by $L^{-1}$ and Kollár-type pushforwards, and extends to log-geometry settings via $\Omega^p(\log D,\varphi,\alpha)$. A practical vanishing criterion (via a non-characteristic hyperplane and a cyclic cover) ensures the KS property for pushforwards, enabling broad geometric consequences. Together, these contributions provide a coherent irregular Hodge vanishing theory compatible with the standard functorial formalism of mixed twistor D-modules and sharpened by the Malgrange extension framework, significantly broadening the reach of Kodaira-Saito-type results in irregular Hodge theory.
Abstract
After making correct, and then improving, our definition of the category of irregular mixed Hodge modules thanks to Mochizuki's recent results arXiv:2108.03843, we show how these results allow us to obtain Kodaira-Saito-type vanishing theorems for the irregular Hodge filtration of irregular mixed Hodge modules.
