Mixed Hodges structures on punctured neighborhoods (Q797646)

Let Y be a complex projective algebraic variety and let \(Z\subset Y\) be a closed subvariety. Let T be a topological neighborhood of Z in Y and let \(T^*=T-Z.\) The goal of this paper is to construct, in an elementary fashion, a mixed Hodge structure on the cohomology of \(T^*\). Special cases of this mixed Hodge structure have occured previously in work of Deligne and Clemens. The paper describes mixed Hodge complexes and mapping cones of mixed Hodge complexes. It is shown that the long exact cohomology sequence of a mapping cone is a sequence of mixed Hodge structures. The main construction is a Mayer-Vietoris construction for finding a mixed Hodge complex for the intersection of two spaces which already have mixed Hodge complexes. (As a corollary, it is shown that a Mayer-Vietoris sequence of quasi-projective varieties is a long exact sequence of mixed Hodge structures.) This construction is used to put a mixed Hodge structure on the cohomology of \(T^*\). When \(T^*\) is nonsingular, more can be said about this mixed Hodge structure. For instance, the weight spectral sequence can be easily calculated. Also, when the singularity is isolated it is shown that the cohomology groups of \(T^*\) below the middle dimension have only low weights.