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Tropical geometry, the motivic nearby fiber and limit mixed Hodge numbers of hypersurfaces

Eric Katz·Alan Stapledon
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The motivic nearby fiber is an invariant obtained from degenerating a complex variety over a disc. It specializes to the Euler characteristic of the original variety but also contains information on the variation of Hodge structure associated to the degeneration which is encoded as a limit mixed Hodge structure. However, this invariant is difficult to compute in practice. Using the techniques of tropical geometry we present a new formula for the motivic nearby fiber. Moreover, since there is a range of available software implementing the main algorithms in tropical geometry, our formula can be computed in practice. We specialize to the case of families of sch\"{o}n complex hypersurfaces of tori where we provide explicit formulas describing the action of the unipotent part of monodromy on the graded pieces (with respect to the Deligne weight filtration) of the cohomology with compact supports. These families are described combinatorially by a polyhedral subdivision of the associated Newton polytope. We develop new mixed Hodge theory-inspired combinatorial invariants of such subdivisions, among them the `refined limit mixed $h^*$-polynomial'. These invariants are related to Stanley's combinatorial study of subdivisions: in a companion combinatorial paper whose results are applied here, we situate our invariants in Stanley's theory where they become multi-variable extensions of his invariants. Our results generalize work of Danilov and Khovanski{\u\i} and Batyrev and Borisov on the Hodge numbers of hypersurfaces. We also present analogous formulas describing the action of the unipotent part of monodromy on the intersection cohomology groups of a family of sch\"on hypersurfaces of a projective toric variety.

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Eric Katz, Alan Stapledon. 2014-04-11. Tropical geometry, the motivic nearby fiber and limit mixed Hodge numbers of hypersurfaces. https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.3000

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