Shenfeld–van Handel's hard Lefschetz kernel conjecture for supercritical collections

Let XX be a smooth projective variety of dimension nn. For a collection of nef classes L=(L1,,Ln2)\mathcal{L}=(L_1,\ldots,L_{n-2}) on XX, assume the supercritical condition

nd(LI)I+2for every I[n2],\operatorname{nd}(L_I)\geq |I|+2\quad\text{for every }I\subset[n-2],

where LI=iILiL_I=\sum_{i\in I}L_i. Let L\mathbb{L} denote the associated hard Lefschetz map, and define

VL,eff=spanR{[D]:DPrime(X), L[D]=0}.V_{\mathcal{L},\operatorname{eff}}=\operatorname{span}_{\mathbb{R}}\{[D]:D\in\operatorname{Prime}(X),\ \mathbb{L}\cdot[D]=0\}.

Shenfeld–van Handel's conjecture. One has

kerL=VL,eff.\ker\mathbb{L}=V_{\mathcal{L},\operatorname{eff}}.

In particular, L\mathbb{L} is a hard Lefschetz class if and only if L[D]0\mathbb{L}\cdot[D]\neq0 for every prime divisor DD on XX. This conjecture extends the characterization of extremal classes for convex polytopes to arbitrary smooth projective varieties through positivity theory; its resolution is not specified in the source.

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Jiajun Hu and Jian Xiao, “Numerical characterization of the hard Lefschetz classes of dimension two, II: supercritical collections of free divisor classes”, arXiv:2505.18729 (2025).

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