Local-global principle for leaf schemes

Abstract

We study Hodge loci as leaf schemes of foliations. The main ingredient is the Gauss-Manin connection matrix of families of projective varieties. We also aim to investigate a conjecture on the ring of definition of leaf schemes and its consequences such as the algebraicity of leaf schemes (Cattani-Deligne-Kaplan theorem in the case of Hodge loci). This conjecture is a consequence of a local-global principle for leaf schemes.