Intersection cohomology of \(\mathbb S^ 1\)-actions on pseudomanifolds. (Q1890448): Difference between revisions

A pseudo-manifold (stratified pseudomanifold of length \(\leq 1\)) is a topological space \(X\) such that in the first place there is a closed \(\Sigma\subset X\), called the singular part, which is the disjoint union of smooth manifolds and such that \(X\setminus\Sigma\) is a dense smooth manifold, and in the second place \(X\) is a product \(U\times c(L)\) of a smooth manifold \(U\) with the open cone of a compact smooth manifold \(L\) (called the link of \(U\)). One calls strata the connected components of \(\Sigma\) and \(X\setminus\Sigma.\) It is known that for any smooth free action of the unit circle \({\mathbb S}^1\) on a manifold \(M\), the Gysin sequence of \(M\) is a long exact sequence relating the De Rham cohomology of \(M\) to that of its orbit space \(M/{\mathbb S}^1\). When the action is not free, \(M/{\mathbb S}^1\) is no longer a manifold, but it is a stratified pseudo-manifold (whose length depends on the number of the orbit types) and there is a Gysin sequence relating the DeRham cohomology of \(M\) to the intersection cohomology of \(M/{\mathbb S}^1\). In this paper, the author extends the above statements to the case where \(M\) is any stratified pseudo-manifold of length 1, whenever the action of \({\mathbb S}^1\) preserves the local structure.