The Drinfeld associator and Aβ functors
Abstract
We compare two mixed Hodge structures attached to a unipotent variation π of mixed Hodge--Tate structures on X=β1β0,1,β: the cohomology of its extension by * at $0$ and by ! at β, and the vanishing cycles at $1$. The semi-holonomy isomorphism constructed in [arXiv:2604.26357] identifies these two structures on their underlying rational structures, compatibly with their weight filtrations, but need not respect their Hodge filtrations. We compute the resulting Hodge defect. Its universal noncommutative series is given by a specific component of the inverse Drinfeld associator multiplied by an explicit local monodromy factor. We conclude with a formal Aβ interpretation of the coefficients of the Hodge defect in terms of weight-framed Tate extensions.
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BibTeX
@misc{markarian2026drinfeld,
title = {{The Drinfeld associator and $A_\infty$ functors}},
author = {Nikita Markarian},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.19341},
eprint = {2609.19341},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.19341},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - The Drinfeld associator and A_β functors
AU - Nikita Markarian
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/16
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.19341
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.19341
AB - We compare two mixed Hodge structures attached to a unipotent variation π of mixed Hodge--Tate structures on X=β^1β0,1,β: the cohomology of its extension by * at $0$ and by ! at β, and the vanishing cycles at $1$. The semi-holonomy isomorphism constructed in [arXiv:2604.26357] identifies these two structures on their underlying rational structures, compatibly with their weight filtrations, but need not respect their Hodge filtrations. We compute the resulting Hodge defect. Its universal noncommutative series is given by a specific component of the inverse Drinfeld associator multiplied by an explicit local monodromy factor. We conclude with a formal A_β interpretation of the coefficients of the Hodge defect in terms of weight-framed Tate extensions.
ER -