nLab Hodge symmetry

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Over compact Kähler manifolds XX, Hodge symmetry is the property that the Dolbeault cohomology groups H p,q(X)H^{p,q}(X) are taken into each other under complex conjugation followed by switching the bidegree:

H p,q(X)H q,p(X)¯. H^{p,q}(X) \simeq \overline{H^{q,p}(X)} \,.

In particular this means that the dimension of the cohomology groups in degree (p,q)(p,q) – the Hodge number h p,qh^{p,q} – coincides with that in bidegree (q,p)(q,p).

By the Dolbeault theorem this is formulated more generally in terms of abelian sheaf cohomology as saying that

dim H q(X,Ω p)=dim H p(X,Ω q), dim_{\mathbb{C}} H^q(X,\Omega^p) = dim_{\mathbb{C}} H^p(X,\Omega^q) \,,

where Ω p\Omega^p denotes the abelian sheaf of holomorphic p-forms.

In this form the statement of Hodge symmetry makes sense more generally for complex analytic spaces and schemes over the complex numbers – but it is no longer generally true in these more general cases

Sufficient conditions for Hodge symmetry to hold more generally are discussed for instance in (Joshi 14).

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