On a generalization of MacPherson's Chern homology class (Q804655)

The author proposes a generalization of the Deligne-Grothendieck- MacPherson theory of Chern classes for possibly singular complex algebraic varieties. The article doesn't contain proofs and more details are announced for later. Let \({\mathcal V}\) be the category of compact complex algebraic varieties and \({\mathcal A}\) the category of abelian groups. Let F be the covariant functor from \({\mathcal V}\) to \({\mathcal A}\) whose value on a variety is the abelian group of constructible functions from that variety to \({\mathbb{Z}}\). Let \(H_*(V,{\mathbb{Z}})\) (resp. \(H_*(V,{\mathbb{Z}})[t])\) be the usual \({\mathbb{Z}}\)-homology (resp. \({\mathbb{Z}}[t]\)-homology) and \(H_*(-,{\mathbb{Z}})\) (resp. \(H_*(- ,{\mathbb{Z}}[t])\) the corresponding functor. One denotes by \(C_*\) the natural transformation from F to \(H_*(-,{\mathbb{Z}})\) which was defined by \textit{R. D. MacPherson} in Ann. Math., II. Ser. 100, 423-432 (1974; Zbl 0311.14001). The main result announced in this paper is the following theorem 1: There exists a covariant functor \(F^ t\) from \({\mathcal V}\) to \({\mathcal A}\) such that: 1. \(F^ t(V)=F(V)\otimes_{{\mathbb{Z}}}{\mathbb{Z}}[t]\) and \(F^ 1=F;\) 2. There exists a unique natural transformation \(C_{t*}\) from \(F^ t\) to \(H_*(-,{\mathbb{Z}})[t]\) such that (a) If V is smooth, then \(C_{t*}(V)(1_ V)=c_ t(TV)\cap [V]\) where \(1_ V\) is the characteristic function of V and \(c_ t(TV)\) is the Chern polynomial of the tangent bundle TV. (b) \(C_{1*}\) coincides with the natural transformation \(C_*\).