Morse theory and tilting sheaves (Q851488)

From the Introduction: ``Tilting perverse sheaves arises in geometric representation theory as natural bases for many categories. For example, for the category of a complex reductive group \(G\), tilting modules corresponds to tilting sheaves on the Schubert stratification \(S\) of the flag variety \(B\)\dots In this paper, we propose a new geometric construction of tilting sheaves. Namely, we show that they naturally arise via Morse theory of sheaves on the opposite Schubert stratification''. The paper is organized into six sections concerning the following topics: 2. Stratifications (Whitney stratifications, Bekka stratifications, transversality, normally nonsingular inclusions, opposite stratifications); 3. Sheaves (constructible sheaves, perverse sheaves, intersection cohomology, tilting sheaves); 4. Morse theory (critical points, boundary-stratified balls, test quadruples, test functions, Morse groups, Morse kernels); 5. From Morse theory to tilting sheaves (nearly cycles, main construction, constructing stratifications, constant kernels, constructing tilting sheaves); 6. Flag varieties (equivariatization, projective sheaves).