Mixed Hodge structures on log smooth degenerations (Q925099)

\textit{J. H. M. Steenbrink} [Math. Ann. 301, No. 1, 105--118 (1995; Zbl 0814.14010)] showed how to supply with a cohomological mixed Hodge complex any logarithmic deformation, which is a complex space equipped with a log structure that is locally isomorphic, in the sense of log geometry, to the central fiber of a semi-stable degeneration over a disc. When the deformation coincides with a semistable degeneration, the construction gives the mixed Hodge complex of the nearby cycles. In the paper under review, the notion of log smooth degeneration is introduced, which is a logarithmic analogue of the central fiber of some kind of degenerations of complex manifolds over polydiscs. It is showed that the reduction a proper log smooth degeneration, such that all the irreducible components are smooth and Kähler, is equpped with a natural cohomological mixed Hodge complex. In particular, the author obtains mixed Hodge structures on the log de Rham cohomologies and \(E_1\)-degeneration of the log Hodge to de Rham spectral sequence.