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\title{Application for a Workshop on Complex Analysis}
\author{Eleonora Di Nezza, Stefan Kebekus, Mihai Păun, Stefan Schreieder}

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\section{Description of the Workshop}


% Topology of Kähler spaces: D-modules, perverse sheaves, Hodge modules
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%- Singularities and Hodge ideals etc: Mustata-Popa, Park, Ruijie Yang, Schnell 
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%- Lagrangian fibrations: Maulik-Shen, Shen-Yin, Schnell, Bakker
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%- Singer-Hopf conjecture and fundamental groups of Kaehler manifolds: Arapura, Botong Wang, Maxim, Llosa-Isenrich—Py.


\subsection{Topology of Kähler spaces: D-modules, perverse sheaves, Hodge modules}

Over the last decade, Saito's theory of Hodge modules has seen spectacular
applications in birational geometry.  More recent developments connect the
theory to singularity theory, commutative algebra, and the topology of algebraic
varieties.  The following topics in this area will be of particular interest to
our workshop.


\subsubsection{Singularities and Hodge ideals}

In a series of influential papers starting with \cite{MR4081135}, Mustaţă and
Popa used Hodge modules to refine and generalize well-known invariants of
singularities, most notably the multiplier ideals used in analysis and algebraic
geometry. An alternative approach towards similar ends was recently suggested in
the preprint \cite{arXiv:2309.16763} of Schnell and Yang.  First applications
pertain to Bernstein--Sato polynomials and their zero sets; these are important
invariants of singularities originating from commutative algebra that are hard
to compute.  Schnell and Yang apply their results to conjectures of
Debarre--Casalaina-Martin--Grushevsky concerning the Riemann--Schottky problem
and the singularities of Theta divisors of principally polarized Abelian
varieties. 

Very recently, Park and Popa applied perverse sheaves and D-module theory to
improve Goresky--MacPherson's classic Lefschetz theorems in the singular setting.
A program put forward by Friedman--Laza aims at understanding the Hodge
structures of degenerating Calabi--Yau varieties. 


\subsubsection{Lagrangian fibrations}

A Lagrangian fibration of a hyperkähler manifold $M$ is a proper holomorphic map
$f : M \to B$ whose generic fibers are Langrangian. 

If $M$ is compact, a well-known conjecture in the field predicts that $B$ is
projective space.  In case where $B$ is smooth, the conjecture has been
established more than 16 years ago in a celebrated work of Hwang.  Today, there
is new insight, as Bakker--Schnell recently found a purely Hodge theoretic proof
of Hwang's result, \cite{arXiv:2311.08977}.  There is hope that these methods
give insight into the singular setting, which remains open to date. 

In the non-compact setting, Lagrangian fibrations have been studied in the
framework of the so called $P=W$ conjecture, which has recently been proven by
Maulik--Shen and Hausel--Mellit--Minets--Schiffmann, \cite{arXiv:2209.02568,
arXiv:2209.05429}.  In the same setting, Shen--Yin discovered a remarkable
symmetry of certain pushforward sheaves and conjectured that more general
symmetries exist.  These conjectures have recently been established by Schnell,
\cite{arXiv:2303.05364}, who also proved two conjectures of Maulik--Shen--Yin on
the behavior of certain perverse sheaves near singular fibers.


\subsubsection{Singer--Hopf conjecture and fundamental groups of Kähler manifolds}

The Singer--Hopf conjecture asserts that a closed aspherical manifold of real
dimension $2n$ has positive signed Euler characteristic, $(-1)^n \cdot
\chi(X)\geq 0$. This conjecture goes back to 1931, when Hopf formulated a
related version for Riemannian manifolds. Recently, Hodge-theoretic refinements
of this conjecture for Kähler manifolds have been put forward by
Arapura--Maxim--Wang, \cite{arXiv:2310.14131}. Special cases of these conjecture
have been proven, but the statement remains open in full generality.

In a related direction, Llosa-Isenrich--Py found an application of complex
geometry and Hodge theory to geometric group theory, settling an old question of
Brady on finiteness properties of groups, \cite{zbMATH07790946}. As a byproduct,
the authors also obtain a proof of the classical Singer conjecture in an
important special case in the realm of Kähler manifolds.

Our goal in this workshop is to bring together several experts in geometric
group theory with experts on Hodge theory, and to explore further potential
applications of the methods from one field to problems in the other.


\subsection{Canonical metrics and Kobayashi hyperbolicity}

\subsubsection{Kähler-Einstein metrics with conic singularities and their limits}

In the proof of Donaldson-Tian-Yau conjecture -around 2015-, the Kähler-Einstein
metrics with conic singularities along a smooth divisor are playing a key role.
Since then, they have become an object of study in its own right. For example,
we currently dispose of results which are completely analog to Yau’s celebrated
solution of Calabi conjecture in conic setting, by the work of S. Brendle, S.
Donaldson, H. Guenancia, Y. Rubinstein,  among many others. 

An important number of the exciting recent developments in this field are
gravitating around the following general question: \emph{let $X$ be a projective
manifold, and let $D\subset $ be a non-singular divisor. We assume that for each
angle $0< \beta<< 1$ small enough, there exists a unique KE metric
$\omega_\beta$ with conic singularities of angle $2\pi\beta$ along $D$, i.e.
$$Ricci_{\omega_\beta}= \lambda \omega_{\beta}+ (1-\beta)[D],$$
where $\lambda$ is equal to -1 or 1. Can one extract a limit of $(\omega_\beta)$
as $\beta\to 0$, eventually after rescaling}?

The series of articles by Biquard-Guenancia —2022 and 2024-- settle many
interesting and technically challenging particular casses of this question:
toroidal compactifications of ball quotients -in which the limit mentioned above
is the hyperbolic metric- and the case of a Fano manifold together with a
divisor $D$ proportional to the anticanonical class -the limit of the rescaled
metric is the Tian-Yau metric. 
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On the other hand, there has been increasing interest in the understanding of
Kähler-Einstein metrics on singular spaces. Perhaps one of the first result in
this direction is due to S. Kobayashi (construction of orbifold Kähler-Einstein
metrics), while a definitive existence result for a large class of singularities
was obtained by Eyssidieux-Guedj-Zeriahi by combining Yau's technique with S.
Kolodziej's $\mathcal C^0$ estimates. Recently Li-Tian-Wang extended
Chen-Donaldson-Sun’s solution of the Yau-Tian-Donaldson conjecture to general
$\mathbb Q$-Fano varieties. Thus, we now have several sources/motivations for
studying singular Kähler-Einstein metrics on normal varieties.

For applications it is desirable to have control of the geometry of these
metrics near the singularities, but so far little is known in general. The
continuity of their potential has only been established very recently (beginning
of 2024) by Y.-W- Luke and Y.-J. Choi. Beyond that, the main progress in this
direction is due to Hein-Sun, who showed that near a large class of smoothable
isolated singularities that are locally isomorphic to a Calabi-Yau cone, the
singular Calabi-Yau metric must be asymptotic in a strong sense to the
Calabi-Yau cone metric. Recently an analogous result was shown by Datar-Fu-Song
in the case of isolated log canonical singularities using the bounded geometry
method, and precise asymptotics were obtained shortly after by Fu-Hein-Jiang.
Important contributions in direct connection with these topics are due to S.-K.
Chiu,T. Delcroix, H.-J. Hein, C. Li, Y. Li, S. Sun, G. Székelyhidi, V. Tosatti
and K. Zhang.


\subsubsection{Complex hyperbolicity}

The Green-Griffiths conjecture (concerning the Zariski closure of holomorphic
entire curves or more generally, of families of holomorphic disks on varieties
of general type) continues to keep busy many complex geometers. Probably the
most complete result in this field is due to A. Bloch (more than 100 years ago),
who -in modern language- showed that the Zariski closure of a map $\varphi:
\mathbb C \to A$ to a complex tori $A$ is the translate of a sub-tori. A decade
ago, K.~Yamanoi established the Green-Griffiths conjecture for projective
manifolds general type, which admit a generically finite map into an Abelian
variety. This represents a very nice generalization of Bloch's theorem.

In the last couple of years the field is taking a very interesting direction, by
combining techniques from Hodge theory with the familiar Nevanlinna theory and
jet differentials, cf. the articles by D. Brotbek, Y. Deng, Y. Brunebarbe, B.
Cadorel and A. Javanpeykar.

Using recent advances in the theory of harmonic maps (due to
Daskalopoulos-Mese), Y. Deng and K. Yamanoi were able to confirm the
Green-Griffiths conjecture for manifolds whose fundamental group admits a
representation having certain natural properties (echoing the case of curves of
genus at least two). 

Techniques from birational geometry, in connection with the work of F.~Campana
are also present in the field via the -long awaited- work of E. Rousseau and its
collaborators. 


\subsubsection{Complex hyperbolicity. Mark II}

The 1979 Green-Griffiths-Lang conjecture asserts that every complex-projective
variety $X$ of general type contains a proper subvariety $Y \subsetneq X$, such
that every non-constant entire holomorphic curve $\mathbb C \to X$ takes its
values in $Y$.  Its beginnings date back to 1926, when André Bloch showed that
the Zariski closure of entire holomorphic curve $\varphi: \mathbb C \to A$ to a
complex torus $A$ is the translate of a sub-torus. Today, the conjecture still
drives much of the research in complex geometry. We highlight several advances
that will be relevant for our workshop.

\paragraph{Hypersurfaces in projective space}

A remarkable paper of Bérczi and Kirwan, \cite{MR4688701} published in September
last year, establishes hyperbolicity and proves the Green-Griffiths-Lang for
generic hypersurfaces of the projective space, $X \subsetneq \mathbb P^n$,
provided that the degree of $X$ is larger than an explicit polynomial in $n$.
These are significant improvements of earlier degree bounds, which involve
non-polynomial bounds of order $(\sqrt{n} \log n)^n$ or worse.  The proof builds
on a strategy of Diverio-Merker-Rousseau and combines non-reductive geometric
invariant theory with the ``Grassmannian techniques'' of Riedl-Yang.  A very
recent preprint of Cadorel simplifies the proof Bérczi-Kirwan substantially, but
still needs to undergo peer review, \cite{arXiv:2406.19003}.


\paragraph{Hyperbolicity and representations of fundamental groups}

Using recent advances in the theory of harmonic maps (due to
Daskalopoulos-Mese), Y. Deng and K. Yamanoi were able to confirm the
Green-Griffiths conjecture for manifolds whose fundamental group admits a
representation having certain natural properties (echoing the case of curves of
genus at least two). 


\paragraph{Material collections}



In the last couple of years the field is taking a very interesting direction, by
combining techniques from Hodge theory with the familiar Nevanlinna theory and
jet differentials, cf. the articles by D. Brotbek, Y. Deng, Y. Brunebarbe, B.
Cadorel and A. Javanpeykar.



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