On the length of perverse sheaves on hyperplane arrangements (Q2210170)

Perverse sheaves and intersection cohomology are fundamental objects encoding the complexity of the topology of a stratified space. The simplest perverse sheaves are the local systems. A next natural class of perverse sheaves to consider are direct images via the open embedding of local systems on the complement of a hypersurface. The authors address the length of such perverse sheaves on \(\mathbb{C}^n\) constructed from rank one local systems on the complement of an arrangement of hyperplanes. In the case of a cone over an essential line arrangement with at most triple points, they provide combinatorial formulas for these lengths. As by-products, they obtain combinatorial formulas for the intersection cohomology Betti numbers of rank one local systems on the complement with the same monodromy around the planes.