Hodge-theoretic adjacency conjecture for k-Du Bois degenerations

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Let XΔ\mathfrak{X}\to\Delta be a flat, projective degeneration with reduced special fiber X0X_0, and let π ⁣:XΔ\pi\colon\mathfrak{X}^*\to\Delta^* be smooth, where X:=XX0\mathfrak{X}^*:=\mathfrak{X}\setminus X_0. Assume that X\mathfrak{X} embeds as an open analytic subset of a projective algebraic variety equipped with a flat projective morphism to a smooth curve. For a projective variety X0X_0 with a hyper-resolution ϵ ⁣:X~0,X0\epsilon\colon\widetilde{X}_{0,\bullet}\to X_0, set

Ω~X0p:=GrFp(RϵΩX~0,)[p].\widetilde{\Omega}^p_{X_0}:=\operatorname{Gr}_F^p(R\epsilon_*\Omega_{\widetilde{X}_{0,\bullet}}^{\bullet})[p].

The variety X0X_0 has kk-Du Bois singularities if the natural map ΩX0pΩ~X0p\Omega^p_{X_0}\to\widetilde{\Omega}^p_{X_0} is a quasi-isomorphism for 0pk0\leq p\leq k. Hodge-theoretic adjacency conjecture. If X0X_0 has kk-Du Bois singularities, then

(Hr(X0))p,q(Hlimr(Xt))p,q(H^r(X_0))^{p,q}\cong (H^r_{\lim}(X_t))^{p,q}

for 0pk0\leq p\leq k and all q,rq,r, with trivial TssT^{\mathrm{ss}}-action on the right-hand side. This predicts that the indicated Hodge components of the special fiber agree with those of the limiting cohomology, while the semisimple part of monodromy acts trivially on the latter. The surrounding discussion presents this as a proposed generalization of inversion of adjunction and of results for smooth total spaces; the parser supplies no evidence that it has been proved or disproved.

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RJ Acuna and Matt Kerr, “Hodge adjacency conditions for singularities”, arXiv:2505.09122 (2025).

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