In mathematics, the local invariant cycle theorem was originally a conjecture of Griffiths which states that, given a surjective
proper map
In mathematics, a function between topological spaces is called proper if inverse images of compact subsets are compact. In algebraic geometry, the analogous concept is called a proper morphism.
Definition
There are several competing def ...
from a
Kähler manifold
In mathematics and especially differential geometry, a Kähler manifold is a manifold with three mutually compatible structures: a complex structure, a Riemannian structure, and a symplectic structure. The concept was first studied by Jan Ar ...
to the unit disk that has maximal rank everywhere except over 0, each cohomology class on
is the restriction of some cohomology class on the entire
if the cohomology class is invariant under a circle action (monodromy action); in short,
:
is surjective. The conjecture was first proved by Clemens. The theorem is also a consequence of the
BBD decomposition.
Deligne also proved the following.
Given a
proper morphism In algebraic geometry, a proper morphism between schemes is an analog of a proper map between complex analytic spaces.
Some authors call a proper variety over a field ''k'' a complete variety. For example, every projective variety over a fi ...
over the spectrum
of the henselization of