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Nearby cycles without a function

Suppose that: $X$ is a smooth complex algebraic variety, $f : X \to D$ is a proper map to a small disc, smooth away from 0, $Z_\epsilon = f^{-1}(\epsilon)$, and $Z = Z_0$. Then there is a procedure (...
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Understanding the mixed Hodge structure on D-modules on $\mathbb{C}$

Consider the category of regular D-modules on $\mathbb{C}$ (let's say as a complex manifold). It's a well-known fact that if you consider the subcategory of these where the singular support is the ...
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The Rappoport-Zink spectral sequence vs. the one of the complement of a normal crossing divisor

As far as I understand these matters, for a regular $\mathfrak{X}$ that is proper flat of finite type over $\operatorname{Spec}\mathbb{Z}_p$, the Rappoport-Zink spectral sequence relates the etale ...
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BRST cohomology and vanishing cycles

Consider the $\mathbb{C}$-variety $\mathbb{A}^{1}$, equipped with the potential (ie global function) $P:=\frac{z^{n+1}}{n+1}$. We can form the twisted de Rham complex $H_{dR}(\mathbb{A}^{1},P)$ which ...
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Is $H^*($vanishing cycles$)$ computed by the twisted de Rham complex?

In notes by Sabbah (Theorem 3), it is stated that the cohomology $$\text{H}^*(X,\varphi_f)$$ of the vanishing cycle sheaf of a function $f:X\to \mathbf{A}^1$ for certain $X$ is expected to be the same ...
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Vanishing cycles and injectivity of the specialisation map

Consider a proper algebraic map between complex varieties $f : X \to D$ ($D$ is the unit disk), which is a submersion over $D^*$. I would like to know if they are any condition on $f$ such that the ...
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Hodge modules and Deligne-Beilinson cohomology of function fields

Let $K$ be a function field over complex numbers i.e. the fraction field of a complex variety. Then one can define the Deligne-Beilinson cohomology and mixed Hodge modules for $K$ as the direct limit ...
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Vanishing cycles and component groups

Let $A$ be an abelian variety over a local field $K$ and assume it has toric reduction. Then two classical invariants associated to this are the component group $\Phi(A)=\mathcal{A}_s/\mathcal{A}_s^0$ ...
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Compute the nearby cycles functor for the category of mixed motives

I am reading the survey of J. Ayoub, The motivic nearby cycles and the conservation conjecture (see here), in which he introduced the original version motivic nearby cycles (another note by Illusie is ...
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Do the nearby cycle and Beilinson's vanishing cycle functors commute?

Let $X$ be a complex algebraic variety with a pair of regular functions $f_1,f_2$. To these functions we can associate various functors: the nearby cycles functor $\Psi_{f_i}$, the vanishing cycles ...
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A hard-Lefschetz theorem with torsion coefficients?

Let $X$ be a smooth projective surface over $\overline{\mathbb{F}_{q}}$. Let $\ell$ be a prime distinct from the characteristic. Assume we have a Lefschetz pencil of hyperplane sections on $X$. Let $...
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Definition of nearby cycle over an affine line

In some famous papers like Gaitsgory's "Construction of central elements in the affine Hecke algebra via nearby cycles" and Beilinson-Bernstein's "A proof of Jantzen conjectures", ...
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Nearby cycles morphism of Guibert-Loeser-Merle

In the paper Iterated vanishing cycles, convolution, and a motivic analogue of a conjecture of Steenbrink by Gil Guibert, Francois Loeser and Michel Merle, the authors defined the morphism for which I ...
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