An extension of Deligne-Grothendieck-MacPherson's theory \(C_ *\) of Chern classes for singular algebraic varieties (Q1187163)

Let \(\mathcal F\) be the unique functor, which associates to compact complex algebraic varieties the group of constructible functions, with \(f_ *(1_ W(p)) = \chi(F^{-1}(p) \cap W)\). MacPherson showed that there exists a natural transformation from \(\mathcal F\) to homology, which on nonsingular varieties assigns to the constant function 1 the Poincaré dual of the total Chern class. The author generalizes the theory to a natural transformation \(C_{t_ *}: {\mathcal F}^ t \to H_ *(-;\mathbb{Z}) \otimes_{\mathbb{Z}} \mathbb{Z}[t]\). The construction is based upon a twisted push-forward for the local Euler obstruction: if \(f_ *Eu_ W = \sum_ Sn_ SEu_ S\), then \(f^ t_ *Eu_ W = \sum_ Sn_ St^{\dim W- \dim S}Eu_ S\). The author goes on to prove some results related to the twisted theory. The last paragraph of the Introduction reads: `At the moment we do not have reasonable applications of our twisted DGM-theory \(C_{t^*}\), but we just remark that Professor M. Kashiwara pointed out that the idea of the twisted DGM-theory might be applicable to the \(q\)- analogue of the universal enveloping algebra, which remains to be seen'.