An L2-Poincaré–Dolbeault lemma of spaces with mixed cone-cusp singular metrics

The existence of Kähler Einstein metrics with mixed cone and cusp singularity has received considerable attentions in recent years. It is believed that such kind of metric would give rise to important geometric invariants. We computed their [Formula: see text]-Hodge–Frölicher spectral sequence under the Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions and examine the pure Hodge structures on them. It turns out that these cohomologies agree well with the de Rham cohomology of a good compactification.

Higher-page Bott–Chern and Aeppli cohomologies and applications

For every positive integer r, we introduce two new cohomologies, that we call E r {E_{r}} -Bott–Chern and E r {E_{r}} -Aeppli, on compact complex manifolds. When r = 1 {r\kern-1.0pt=\kern-1.0pt1} , they coincide with the usual Bott–Chern and Aeppli cohomologies, but they are coarser, respectively finer, than these when r ≥ 2 {r\geq 2} . They provide analogues in the Bott–Chern–Aeppli context of the E r {E_{r}} -cohomologies featuring in the Frölicher spectral sequence of the manifold. We apply these new cohomologies in several ways to characterise the notion of page- ( r - 1 ) {(r-1)} - ∂ ⁡ ∂ ¯ {\partial\bar{\partial}} -manifolds that we introduced very recently. We also prove analogues of the Serre duality for these higher-page Bott–Chern and Aeppli cohomologies and for the spaces featuring in the Frölicher spectral sequence. We obtain a further group of applications of our cohomologies to the study of Hermitian-symplectic and strongly Gauduchon metrics for which we show that they provide the natural cohomological framework.

Another proof of the persistence of Serre symmetry in the Frölicher spectral sequence

Serre’s duality theorem implies a symmetry between the Hodge numbers, hp,q = hn−p,n−q, on a compact complex n–manifold. Equivalently, the first page of the associated Frölicher spectral sequence satisfies \dim E_1^{p,q} = \dim E_1^{n - p,n - q} for all p, q. Adapting an argument of Chern, Hirzebruch, and Serre [3] in an obvious way, in this short note we observe that this “Serre symmetry” \dim E_k^{p,q} = \dim E_k^{n - p,n - q} holds on all subsequent pages of the spectral sequence as well. The argument shows that an analogous statement holds for the Frölicher spectral sequence of an almost complex structure on a nilpotent real Lie group as considered by Cirici and Wilson in [4].

On the degeneration of the Frölicher spectral sequence and small deformations

We study the behavior of the degeneration at the second step of the Frölicher spectral sequence of a 𝒞∞ family of compact complex manifolds. Using techniques from deformation theory and adapting them to pseudo-differential operators we prove a result à la Kodaira-Spencer for the dimension of the second step of the Frölicher spectral sequence and we prove that, under a certain hypothesis, the degeneration at the second step is an open property under small deformations of the complex structure.

Non-Kähler Mirror Symmetry of the Iwasawa Manifold

We propose a new approach to the mirror symmetry conjecture in a form suitable to possibly non-Kähler compact complex manifolds whose canonical bundle is trivial. We apply our methods by proving that the Iwasawa manifold $X$, a well-known non-Kähler compact complex manifold of dimension $3$, is its own mirror dual to the extent that its Gauduchon cone, replacing the classical Kähler cone that is empty in this case, corresponds to what we call the local universal family of essential deformations of $X$. These are obtained by removing from the Kuranishi family the two “superfluous” dimensions of complex parallelisable deformations that have a similar geometry to that of the Iwasawa manifold. The remaining four dimensions are shown to have a clear geometric meaning including in terms of the degeneration at $E_2$ of the Frölicher spectral sequence. On the local moduli space of “essential” complex structures, we obtain a canonical Hodge decomposition of weight $3$ and a variation of Hodge structures, construct coordinates and Yukawa couplings while implicitly proving a local Torelli theorem. On the metric side of the mirror, we construct a variation of Hodge structures parametrised by a subset of the complexified Gauduchon cone of the Iwasawa manifold using the sGG property (which means that all the Gauduchon metrics are strongly Gauduchon) of all the small deformations of this manifold proved in earlier joint work of the author with L. Ugarte. Finally, we define a mirror map linking the two variations of Hodge structures and we highlight its properties.

Degeneration at E2 of certain spectral sequences

We propose a Hodge theory for the spaces [Formula: see text] featuring at the second step either in the Frölicher spectral sequence of an arbitrary compact complex manifold [Formula: see text] or in the spectral sequence associated with a pair [Formula: see text] of complementary regular holomorphic foliations on such a manifold. The main idea is to introduce a Laplace-type operator associated with a given Hermitian metric on [Formula: see text] whose kernel in every bidegree [Formula: see text] is isomorphic to [Formula: see text] in either of the two situations discussed. The surprising aspect is that this operator is not a differential operator since it involves a harmonic projection, although it depends on certain differential operators. We then use this Hodge isomorphism for [Formula: see text] to give sufficient conditions for the degeneration at [Formula: see text] of the spectral sequence considered in each of the two cases in terms of the existence of certain metrics on [Formula: see text]. For example, in the Frölicher case, we prove degeneration at [Formula: see text] if there exists an SKT metric [Formula: see text] (i.e. such that [Formula: see text]) whose torsion is small compared to the spectral gap of the elliptic operator [Formula: see text] defined by [Formula: see text]. In the foliated case, we obtain degeneration at [Formula: see text] under a hypothesis involving the Laplacians [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] associated with the splitting [Formula: see text] induced by the foliated structure.