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Numerical bounds for semi-stable families of curves or of certain higher-dimensional manifolds

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Given an open subset U U of a projective curve Y Y and a smooth family f : V → U f:V\to U of curves, with semi-stable reduction over Y Y , we show that for a subvariation V \mathbb {V} of Hodge structures of R 1 f ∗ C V R^1f_*\mathbb {C}_V with rank ( V ) > 2 \textrm {rank} (\mathbb {V})>2 the Arakelov inequality must be strict. For families of n n -folds we prove a similar result under the assumption that the ( n , 0 ) (n,0) component of the Higgs bundle of V \mathbb {V} defines a birational map.