Singularities of admissible normal functions (with an appendix by Najmuddin Fakhruddin)

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Abstract: In a recent paper, M. Green and P. Griffiths used R. Thomas' works on nodal hypersurfaces to establish the equivalence of the Hodge conjecture and the existence of certain singular admissible normal functions. Inspired by their work, we study normal functions using M. Saito's mixed Hodge modules and prove that the existence of singularities of the type considered by Griffiths and Green is equivalent to the Hodge conjecture. Several of the intermediate results, including a relative version of the weak Lefschetz theorem for perverse sheaves, are of independent interest.


The authors continue in this paper the work of M. Green and P. Griffiths on algebraic cycles and singularities of normal functions. By using Morihiko Saito's mixed Hodge modules, they prove that the existence of singularities of the type considered by Green and Griffiths is equivalent to the Hodge conjecture. Along the way, the authors obtain a relative version of the weak Lefschetz theorem for perverse sheaves. Another version of this latter result is described in the appendix.











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