On monodromies of a degeneration of irreducible symplectic Kähler manifolds (Q2465402)

A compact Kähler manifold \(X\) of dimension \(2n\) is said to be irreducible symplectic if it is simply connected and it admits an holomorphic symplectic form \(\sigma\in H^2(X,\Omega^2_X)\) (i.e. \(\sigma^{\wedge n}\) is nowhere vanishing), which spans \(H^0(X,\Omega^2_X)\). Examples of irreducible symplectic Kähler manifolds include the Hilbert scheme of points of any \(K3\) surface. A degeneration \(\pi:\mathcal X\to \Delta\) of a compact symplectic Kähler manifold is called a good degeneration if \(\pi\) is semi-stable and there exists a logarithmic \(2\)-form \(\sigma_\pi\in H^0(X,\Omega^2_{\mathcal X/\Delta}(\log X))\) such that \(\sigma_\pi^{\wedge n}\) is nowhere vanishing. By the monodromy theorem, it follows that, after possilby taking a cyclic base change, the monodromy operator \(T_m\) on \(H_m(\mathcal X_t,\mathbb C)\) is unipotent. In the paper under review, the author studies the unipotency of \(T_{2n}\), i.e. the maximal \(l\) such that \(N^l_{2n}\neq 0\), where \(N_{2n}=\log T_{2n}\). In particular, it is proven that the unopotency of \(T_{2n}\) for a good degeneration of an irreducible symplectic Kähler manifold is either \(0\) or at least \(n\).