Hodge ideals and spectrum of isolated hypersurface singularities

Abstract

We introduce Hodge ideal spectrum for isolated hypersurface singularities to see the difference between the Hodge ideals and the microlocal <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:mi>V</mml:mi> </mml:math> -filtration modulo the Jacobian ideal. Via the Tjurina subspectrum, we can compare the Hodge ideal spectrum with the Steenbrink spectrum which can be defined by the microlocal <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:mi>V</mml:mi> </mml:math> -filtration. As a consequence of a formula of Mustață and Popa, these two spectra coincide in the weighted homogeneous case. We prove sufficient conditions for their coincidence and non-coincidence in some non-weighted-homogeneous cases where the defining function is semi-weighted-homogeneous or with non-degenerate Newton boundary in most cases. We also show that the convenience condition can be avoided in a formula of M. Zhang for the non-degenerate case, and present an example where the Hodge ideals are not weakly decreasing even modulo the Jacobian ideal.