D-modules, Bernstein-Sato ideals and topology of rank 1 local systems

HARVARD-MIT ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY

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October 27, 2020 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
via Zoom Video Conferencing
Speaker:

Lei Wu - University of Utah

The generic vanishing theorem of Green-Lazarsfeld says that for general elements in the Picard variety of a projective manifold, their cohomology groups vanish in all degrees. Moreover, the cohomological jumping locus, that is, the locus where generic vanishing fails, is a union of torsion translated abelian subvarieties. If one replaces the Picard variety by the character variety of rank 1 local systems, then one can study a similar phenomenon, which are works by Simpson and Budur-Wang topologically and Esnault-Kerz arithmetically.  In this talk, I will focus on the same phenomenon but from algebraic perspectives by using D-modules. More precisely, I will discuss zero loci of Bernstein-Sato ideals and explain why the zero loci can be treated as the algebraic analogue of topological jumping loci by using relative D-modules. Then I will prove a conjecture of Budur that zero loci of Bernstein-Sato ideals are related to the topological jumping loci in the sense of Riemann-Hilbert Correspondence. This is based on joint work with Nero Budur, Robin van der Veer and Peng Zhou.

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