Twisted cohomology of the complement of theta divisors in an abelian surface

Abstract

Let [Formula: see text] be an abelian surface, and [Formula: see text] be the sum of [Formula: see text] distinct theta divisors having normal crossings. We set [Formula: see text]. We study the structure of the nonvanishing twisted cohomology group [Formula: see text], where [Formula: see text] denotes a locally constant sheaf over [Formula: see text] defined by a multiplicative meromorphic function on [Formula: see text] infinitely ramified just along the divisor [Formula: see text] (as will be seen below, we will take as such a function a product of complex powers of theta functions). The de Rham complex on [Formula: see text] with logarithmic poles along [Formula: see text], associated to the twisted cohomology groups [Formula: see text], is [Formula: see text]-valued, where [Formula: see text] denotes a topologically trivial (i.e. Chern class zero) line bundle over [Formula: see text] determined by the locally constant sheaf [Formula: see text]. Therefore the main results of this paper, which give us information on the order of poles of meromorphic 2-forms on [Formula: see text] generating the cohomology group [Formula: see text], are divided into Theorems 4.5 and 4.6, according as the de Rham complex on [Formula: see text] with logarithmic poles along [Formula: see text] takes the values in a holomorphically nontrivial line bundle [Formula: see text] or a holomorphically trivial one [Formula: see text] ([Formula: see text] denoting the holomorphically trivial line bundle [Formula: see text]). Such a phenomenon does not occur in the case of the twisted cohomology of complex projective space with hyperplane arrangement.