We show that an irreducible component of the Hodge locus of a polarizable variation of Hodge structure of weight 0 on a smooth complex variety X is defined over an algebraically closed subfield k of finite transcendence degree if X is defined over k and the component contains a k-rational point. We also prove a similar assertion for the Hodge locus inside the Hodge bundle if the Hodge bundle to...

The Hodge theorem also asserts that these two spaces are complex conjugates and hence the equality of the two dimensions. In this note we give a p-adic proof of (1.1) when X/C is a smooth projective threefold. Our approach is based on the following observation: one first notes a purely p-adic assertion that (1.1) holds when Hodge numbers are replaced by more delicate p-adic invariants introduce...

We introduce an “extended locus of Hodge classes” that also takes into account integral classes that become Hodge classes “in the limit”. More precisely, given a polarized variation of integral Hodge structure of weight zero on a Zariski-open subset of a complex manifold, we construct a canonical analytic space that parametrizes limits of integral classes; the extended locus of Hodge classes is...

This paper is an extended version of an expository talk given at the workshop “Topology of Stratified Spaces” at MSRI in September 2008. It gives an introduction and overview about recent developments on the interaction of the theories of characteristic classes and mixed Hodge theory for singular spaces in the complex algebraic context. It uses M. Saito’s deep theory of mixed Hodge modules as a...

l-adic Étale Theory Hodge Theory Category of l-adic Abelian category MHR Galois modules of real mixed Hodge strucrures Galois group Hodge Galois group GHod := Gal(Q/Q) Galois group of the category MHR Gal(Q/Q) acts on H∗ et(X,Ql), H∗(X(C),R) has a functorial where X is a variety over Q real mixed Hodge structure étale site ?? Gal(Q/Q) acts on the étale site, and thus ?? on categories of étale s...

Absolute Hodge classes first appear in Deligne’s proof of the Weil conjectures for K3 surfaces in [14] and are explicitly introduced in [16]. The notion of absolute Hodge classes in the singular cohomology of a smooth projective variety stands between that of Hodge classes and classes of algebraic cycles. While it is not known whether absolute Hodge classes are algebraic, their definition is bo...