Holonomic and perverse logarithmic D-modules

We introduce the notion of a holonomic D-module on a smooth (idealized) logarithmic scheme and show that Verdier duality can be extended to this context. In contrast to the classical case, the pushforward of a holonomic module along an open immersion is in general not holonomic. We introduce a “perverse” t-structure on the category of coherent logarithmic D-modules which makes the dualizing functor t-exact on holonomic modules. Conversely this t-exactness characterizes holonomic modules among all coherent logarithmic D-modules. We also introduce logarithmic versions of the Gabber and Kashiwara–Malgrange filtrations.