Using local cohomology and algebraic D-Modules, we generalize a comparison theorem between relative de Rham cohomology and Dwork cohomology due to N. Katz, A. Adolphson and S. Sperber.

Let (R,m) be a local Noetherian ring, let I ⊂ R be any ideal and let M be a finitely generated R-module. It has been long conjectured that the local cohomology modules H I(M) have finitely many associated primes for all i (see Conjecture 5.1 in [H] and [L].) If R is not required to be local these sets of associated primes may be infinite, as shown by Anurag Singh in [S], where he constructed an...

In this paper we define the formal and tempered Deligne cohomology groups, that are obtained by applying the Deligne complex functor to the complexes of formal differential forms and tempered currents respectively. We then prove the existence of a duality between them, a vanishing theorem for the former and a semipurity property for the latter. The motivation of these results comes from the stu...