The monodromy pairing for logarithmic 1-motifs (Q2683008)

The aim of this paper is to describe a \(3\)-step filtration on all logarithmic abelian varieties with constant degeneration. The obstruction to descending this filtration, as a variegated extension, from logarithmic geometry to algebraic geometry is encoded in a bilinear pairing valued in the characteristic monoid of the base. The bulk of this paper is devoted to constructing the monodromy pairing in \(p\)-adic, \(l\)-adic, and Betti cohomologies, using logarithmic and tropical considerations and uses it to recover the formula for the Picard-Lefschetz transformation in the case of Jacobians. A semistable degeneration of abelian varieties naturally produces a logarithmic abelian variety on the special fiber. This logarithmic abelian variety has the structure of a quotient of a logarithmic semiabelian variety by a lattice, and this is the starting point in this paper. The Hodge realization of the filtration is the monodromy weight filtration on the limit mixed Hodge structure. This paper is organized as follows: Section 1 is an introduction to the subject. Sections 2, 3, and 4, are devoted to logarithmic \(1\)-motifs, variegated extensions (extensions panachées), and logarithmic monodromy pairing, respectively. In Section 5, the author gives a second construction of the monodromy pairing using the dual logarithmic \(1\)-motif. This section is meant to provide comparisons to other perspectives on the monodromy pairing, and is not used in the rest of the paper. Section 6 deals with torsion realization and is about going back and forth between logarithmic flat topology and strict flat topology. Sections 7 and 8 deal with étale realization and Betti realization. In Section 8, the author applies the realization functor of [\textit{T. Kajiwara} et al., Nagoya Math. J. 191, 149--180 (2008; Zbl 1149.14038); J. Math. Sci., Tokyo 15, No. 1, 69--193 (2008; Zbl 1156.14038)]. Sections 9 and 10 are devoted to Hodge realization and Picard-Lefschetz theory, respectively. The paper is supported by an appendix about logarithmic and tropical multiplicative groups.