Hodge-to-de Rham Degeneration for Stacks

Abstract We introduce a notion of a Hodge-proper stack and apply the strategy of Deligne and Illusie to prove the Hodge-to-de Rham degeneration in this setting. In order to reduce the statement in characteristic $0$ to characteristic $p$, we need to find a good integral model of a stack (namely, a Hodge-proper spreading), which, unlike in the case of proper schemes, need not to exist in general. To address this problem, we investigate the property of spreadability in more detail by generalizing standard spreading out results for schemes to higher Artin stacks and showing that all proper and some global quotient stacks are Hodge-properly spreadable. As a corollary, we deduce a (noncanonical) Hodge decomposition of the equivariant cohomology for certain classes of varieties with an algebraic group action.