The Du Bois complex of a hypersurface and the minimal exponent

Abstract: We study the Du Bois complex

of a hypersurface

Z

in a smooth complex algebraic variety in terms its minimal exponent

w i d e t i l d e a l p h a (Z)

. The latter is an invariant of singularities, defined as the negative of the greatest root of the reduced Bernstein-Sato polynomial of

Z

, and refining the log canonical threshold. We show that if

w i d e t i l d e a l p h a (Z) g e q p + 1

, then the canonical morphism

O m e g a_{Z}^{p} o u n d e r l i n e {O m e g a}_{Z}^{p}

is an isomorphism, where

u n d e r l i n e {O m e g a}_{Z}^{p}

is the

p

-th associated graded piece of the Du Bois complex with respect to the Hodge filtration. On the other hand, if

Z

is singular and

w i d e t i l d e a l p h a (Z) > p g e q 2

, we obtain non-vanishing results for some of the higher cohomologies of

u n d e r l i n e {O m e g a}_{Z}^{n - p}

.

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