Hyperplane sections for simple singularities and examples of variations of Hodge structures (Q425143)

The author constructs interesting new variations of Hodge structures (VHS) on smooth projective varieties \(Y\) which are obtained as follows. First one takes a generic \(m\)-dimensional linear section \(U_m\) of the open set \(U\) parametrizing the smooth hyperplane sections of a given odd dimensional projective smooth variety \(X\). Then, for \(3 \leq m \leq 6\), \(Y\) can be realized as the smooth compactification of the total space of a finite Galois covering of \(U_m\). A rational, polarizable VHS on \(X\) gives then rise to a VSH on \(Y\) using standard pull-back and push-forward operations. This construction is applied to checking the Carlson-Toledo conjecture for classes of examples of dimension \(m\).