Hodge level for weighted complete intersections

Abstract

We give lower bounds for Hodge numbers of smooth well formed Fano weighted complete intersections. In particular, we compute their Hodge level, that is, the maximal distance between non-trivial Hodge numbers in the same row of the Hodge diamond. This allows us to classify varieties whose Hodge numbers are like that of a projective space, of a curve, or of a Calabi--Yau variety of low dimension.