The intersection cohomology of the Satake compactification of A_g for g 4

DOI10.1007/S00208-016-1491-1MaRDI QIDQ1674591zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Samuel Grushevsky, Klaus Hulek

Publication date 25 October 2017

Published in Mathematische Annalen (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.02343

zbMATH Keywords

decomposition theoremintersection cohomologylink bundleslocally symmetric spacesmoduli spacesprincipally polarized abelian varietiesSatake compactification

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Other algebro-geometric (co)homologies (e.g., intersection, equivariant, Lawson, Deligne (co)homologies) (14F43) Algebraic moduli of abelian varieties, classification (14K10) Intersection homology and cohomology in algebraic topology (55N33)

Abstract: We completely determine the intersection cohomology of the Satake compactifications of the moduli space of principally polarized abelian varieties in genera 2,3,4, except for the degree 10 intersection cohomology in genus 4. We also determine all the ingredients appearing in the decomposition theorem applied to the map from a toroidal compactification to the Satake compactification in these genera. As a byproduct we obtain in addition several results about the intersection cohomology of the link bundles involved.

Review text

Intersection cohomology is a powerful tool for studying the topology of singular algebraic varieties. In the specific case of locally symmetric spaces and their Baily--Borel compactification, intersection cohomology also relates in many way to other cohomology theories, such as \(L^2\)-cohomology. On the other hand, there are not so many known cases of explicit computations. The paper under review fills this gap in the most classical case of a locally symmetric space, i.e. the moduli space \(\mathcal{A}_g\) of principally polarized abelian varieties of dimension \(g\). The main result is a computation of the intersection cohomology of the Baily-Borel-Satake compactification \(\mathcal{A}_g^{\text{Sat}}\) for \(g\leq 4\). The result is that in this case the intersection cohomology is isomorphic to the tautological ring of any smooth toroidal compactification of \(\mathcal {A}_g\), i.e. the subring of the cohomology ring generated by the Chern classes of the Hodge bundle. The result does not include the case of the middle intersection cohomology \(H^{10}(\mathcal{A}_g^{\text{Sat}})\), which was settled only recently by Taïbi. The proof is based on studying the natural map from a smooth toroidal compactification of \(\mathcal{A}_g\) to the Baily--Borel-Satake compactification and applying to it the decomposition theorem of \textit{A. A. Beilinson} et al. [Astérisque 100, 172 p. (1982; Zbl 0536.14011)], using a process inspired by its proof by \textit{de Cataldo} and \textit{L. Migliorini} in [Bull. Am. Math. Soc., New Ser. 46, No. 4, 535--633 (2009; Zbl 1181.14001)]. As a byproduct, the paper also includes several results about the intersection cohomology of the link bundles of the strata of \(\mathcal{A}_g^{\text{Sat}} = \mathcal{A}_g \amalg \mathcal{A}_{g-1} \amalg \cdots \amalg \mathcal{A}_0\) inside \(\mathcal{A}_g^{\text{Sat}}\).

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