Intersection homology with general perversities (Q711659)

The author studies intersection homology with general perversities that assign integers to stratum components with none of the classical constraints of Goresky and MacPherson. He extends Goresky and MacPherson's treatment of Deligne sheaves and uses these to obtain Poincaré and Lefschetz-MacPherson duality results for these general perversities. He obtains versions of both the sheaf-theoretic and the piecewise linear chain-theoretic intersections pairings that carry no restrictions on the input perversities. After a short presentation of the background and notations the author shows that the classical Deligne sheaf construction is insufficient to provide a complete sheaf-theoretic approach to intersection homology with general perversities. He introduces a generalization of the sheaf truncation functor to replace the classical sheaf truncation functor in the Deligne construction. Then the general perversity intersection homology possesses an axiomatic characterization founded on the properties of this generalized Deligne sheaf. The generalized Deligne sheaves are constructible and this implies a general perversity version of the Poincaré-Verdier-Goresky-MacPherson duality theorem on stratified pseudomanifolds. The main results are in the Theorems 1.1, 1.4, and 1.5 stated in the Introduction of the paper.