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TauCeti.Geometry.Hodge.Zero

The zero polarizable Hodge structure #

The zero lattice carries a unique Hodge structure of any weight, and the zero bilinear form polarizes it: the Hodge–Riemann positivity is a condition on nonzero vectors of the Hodge components, of which there are none. So the zero object exists in the category of polarizable rational Hodge structures of a fixed weight, which is what makes the empty direct sum available alongside the binary ones.

Main declarations #

References #

Voisin, Hodge Theory and Complex Algebraic Geometry I, §7.1.2; Peters--Steenbrink, Mixed Hodge Structures, §2.

The zero-carrier and zero-object constructions follow TauCeti.Geometry.Hodge.Mixed.Zero.

The zero polarizable Hodge structure of weight n, on the zero lattice.

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    A polarizable Hodge structure with subsingleton rational carrier is a zero object.

    Morphisms are determined by their rational linear maps, so the rational carrier alone detects the zero object; no separate hypothesis on the complex carrier is needed.

    The rational carrier of the named zero object is subsingleton.

    The named zero object is both initial and terminal.

    The category of polarizable Hodge structures of weight n has a zero object.