Hyodo-Kato cohomology in rigid geometry: some foundational results
Xinyu Shao
TL;DR
This work develops Hyodo-Kato cohomology in rigid geometry, establishing fundamental geometric properties (Mayer–Vietoris, Poincaré duality, Gysin) for both algebraic and analytic HK, including compact support. Leveraging these properties, the authors prove a GAGA-type comparison between algebraic and analytic HK cohomology and establish a semistable conjecture for étale cohomology of almost proper rigid analytic varieties via a period morphism and descent arguments. They formulate and analyze the compactly supported HK theory, relate it to Tsuji’s log-crystalline cohomology, and show compatibility across daggers, rigid spaces, and their pro-étale and de Rham realizations. The results provide a coherent framework unifying HK theory across algebraic and analytic worlds, with explicit comparisons to log-crystalline cohomology and a robust descent apparatus built from éh/h-topologies and Beilinson bases.
Abstract
By exploring the geometric properties of Hyodo-Kato cohomology in rigid geometry, we establish several foundational results, including the semistable conjecture for étale cohomology of almost proper rigid analytic varieties, and GAGA (comparison between algebraic and analytic) for Hyodo-Kato cohomology. A central component of our approach is the Gysin sequence for Hyodo-Kato cohomology, which we construct using the open-closed exact sequence for compactly supported Hyodo-Kato cohomology and Poincaré duality.
