Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Christian Schnell
UIC
Complex analytic Neron models
Abstract: I will present a global construction of the Neron model for degenerating families
of intermediate Jacobians; a classical case would be families of abelian varieties.
The construction is based on Saito's theory of mixed Hodge modules; a nice
feature is that it works in any dimension, and does not require normal crossing
or unipotent monodromy assumptions. As a corollary, we obtain a different proof
for the theorem of Brosnan-Pearlstein and Saito that the closure of the zero locus
of an admissible normal function without singularities remains analytic.
Thursday September 10, 2009 at 4:00 PM in SEO 636