Working session: Twistor \(\mathcal{D}\)-modules and the decomposition theorem. Abstracts from the working session held April 2--7, 2023 (Q6188868)

Summary: The purpose of this Arbeitsgemeinschaft is to introduce the notion of twistor \(\mathcal{D}\)-modules and their main properties. The guiding principle leading this discussion is Simpson's ``meta-theorem'', which gives a heuristic for generalizing (mixed) Hodge-theoretic results into (mixed) twistor-theoretic results. The strength of the twistor approach is that it enables to enlarge the scope of Hodge theory not only to arbitrary semi-simple perverse sheaves, equivalently semi-simple regular holonomic \(\mathcal{D}\)-modules via the Riemann-Hilbert correspondence, but also to possibly semi-simple \textit{irregular} holonomic \(\mathcal{D}\)-modules. An overarching goal for this session is Mochizuki's proof of the decomposition theorem for semi-simple holonomic \(\mathcal{D}\)-modules on a smooth complex projective variety, first conjectured by Kashiwara in 1996.