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Mihnea Popa

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arXiv2018

Brody hyperbolicity of base spaces of certain families of varieties

We prove that quasi-projective base spaces of smooth families of minimal varieties of general type with maximal variation do not admit Zariski dense entire curves. We deduce the fact that moduli stacks of polarized varieties of this sort are Brody hyperbolic, answering a special case of a question of Viehweg and Zuo. For two-dimensional bases, we show analogous results in the more general case of families of varieties admitting a good minimal model.

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arXiv2018

Derived equivalence and non-vanishing loci II

We prove a few cases of a conjecture on the invariance of cohomological support loci under derived equivalence by establishing a concrete connection with the related problem of the invariance of Hodge numbers. We use the main case in order to study the derived behavior of fibrations over curves.

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arXiv2018

Local vanishing and Hodge filtration for rational singularities

Given an n-dimensional variety Z with rational singularities, we conjecture that for a resolution of singularities whose reduced exceptional divisor E has simple normal crossings, the (n-1)-th higher direct image of the sheaf of differential forms with log poles along E vanishes. We prove this when Z has isolated singularities and when it is a toric variety. We deduce that for a divisor D with isolated rational singularities on a smooth complex n-dimensional variety X, the generation level of Saito's Hodge filtration on the localization of the structure sheaf along D is at most n-3.

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arXiv2017

Algebraic fiber spaces over abelian varieties: around a recent theorem by Cao and Paun

We present a simplified proof for a recent theorem by Junyan Cao and Mihai Paun, confirming a special case of Iitaka's conjecture: if $f \colon X\to Y$ is an algebraic fiber space, and if the Albanese mapping of $Y$ is generically finite over its image, then we have the inequality of Kodaira dimensions $κ(X)\geq κ(Y)+κ(F)$, where $F$ denotes a general fiber of $f$. We include a detailed survey of the main algebraic and analytic techniques, especially the construction of singular hermitian metrics on pushforwards of adjoint bundles (due to Berndtsson, Paun, and Takayama).

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arXiv2017

Hodge ideals

We use methods from birational geometry to study M. Saito's Hodge filtration on the localization along a hypersurface. This filtration leads to a sequence of ideal sheaves, called Hodge ideals, the first of which is a multiplier ideal. We analyze their local and global properties, and use them for applications related to the singularities and Hodge theory of hypersurfaces and their complements.

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arXiv2016

Hodge modules on complex tori and generic vanishing for compact Kähler manifolds

We extend the results of generic vanishing theory to polarizable real Hodge modules on compact complex tori, and from there to arbitrary compact Kähler manifolds. As applications, we obtain a bimeromorphic characterization of compact complex tori among compact Kähler manifolds, semi-positivity results, and a description of the Leray filtration for maps to tori.

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arXiv2016

Viehweg's hyperbolicity conjecture for families with maximal variation

We use the theory of Hodge modules to construct Viehweg-Zuo sheaves on the base spaces of families with maximal variation and fibers of general type, or more generally whose geometric generic fiber has a good minimal model. We deduce Viehweg's hyperbolicity conjecture in this context, namely the fact that the base spaces of such families are of log general type. This is approached as part of a general problem of identifying what spaces can support Hodge theoretic objects with certain positivity properties.

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arXiv2016

Generic vanishing and minimal cohomology classes on abelian fivefolds

We classify GV-subschemes of five-dimensional ppavs, showing that they exist only on Jacobians of curves and intermediate Jacobians of cubic threefolds, and confirming a conjecture of Pareschi--Popa in this case. The result is implied by a more general statement about subvarieties of minimal cohomology class whose sum is a theta divisor.

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arXiv2016

Kodaira-Saito vanishing and applications

The first part of the paper contains a detailed proof of M. Saito's generalization of the Kodaira vanishing theorem, following the original argument and with ample background, based on a lecture given at a Clay workshop on mixed Hodge modules. The second part contains some recent applications, and a Kawamata-Viehweg-type statement in the setting of mixed Hodge modules.

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arXiv2016

Weak positivity for Hodge modules

We prove the weak positivity of the kernels of Kodaira-Spencer- type maps for pure Hodge module extensions of generically defined variations of Hodge structure.

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arXiv2014

On direct images of pluricanonical bundles

We show that techniques inspired by Kollár and Viehweg's study of weak positivity, combined with vanishing theorems for log-canonical pairs, lead to new consequences regarding generation and vanishing properties for direct images of pluricanonical bundles. We formulate the strongest such results as Fujita conjecture-type statements, which are then shown to govern a range of fundamental properties of direct images of pluricanonical and pluriadjoint line bundles, like effective vanishing theorems, weak positivity, or generic vanishing.

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arXiv2013

Derived equivalences of smooth stacks and orbifold Hodge numbers

Given a derived equivalence of orbifolds associated to projective varieties with (not necessarily Gorenstein) quotient singularities, we deduce consequences related to the behavior of orbifold Hodge numbers and the Picard variety, extending what is known in the smooth case.

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arXiv2012

Derived equivalence and non-vanishing loci

The paper proposes and motivates a conjecture on the invariance of cohomological support loci under derived equivalence. It contains a proof in the case of surfaces, and explains further developments and consequences.

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arXiv2012

Generic vanishing theory via mixed Hodge modules

We extend the dimension and strong linearity results of generic vanishing theory to bundles of holomorphic forms and rank one local systems, and more generally to certain coherent sheaves of Hodge-theoretic origin associated to irregular varieties. Our main tools are Saito's mixed Hodge modules, the Fourier-Mukai transform for D-modules on abelian varieties introduced by Laumon and Rothstein, and Simpson's harmonic theory for flat bundles. In the process, we discover two natural categories of perverse coherent sheaves, one on the Picard variety, and the other on the moduli space of Higgs line bundles or that of line bundles with flat connection.

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arXiv2011

Canonical cohomology as an exterior module

We show that the total cohomology of the canonical bundle of a smooth projective variety, seen as a module over an exterior algebra, splits into a natural direct sum of submodules which are generated in degree zero and have a linear free resolution. This improves a previous result of the first two authors.

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