Seminar of Laboratory of Algebraic Geometry: Andrey Soldatenkov (Bonn)

Andrey Soldatenkov (Uni.Bonn) will make a talk "Kuga-Satake construction and its generalizations" on seminar, September 1st.

Let H be a rational polarized weight 2 Hodge structure of K3 type, meaning that the (2,0)-component is one-dimensional. Classical Kuga-Satake construction attaches to it an abelian variety A an an embedding of H into the second cohomology of A, compatible with Hodge structures. I will talk about our recent work with N.Kurnosov and M.Verbitsky in which we consider the case where H is the second cohomology of a hyperkahler manifold X. We show that all cohomology of X can be embedded into the cohomology of the product of several copies of A. If time permits, I will talk about our joint work with S.Schreieder, where we consider the behaviour of Kuga-Satake abelian varieties under degeneration. It turns out that one can describe the limit mixed Hodge structure on the central fibre of degenerating family of Kuga-Satake varieties.