On nearly smooth complex spaces

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Abstract: We introduce a class of normal complex spaces having only mild sin-gularities (close to quotient singularities) for which we generalize the notion of a (analytic) fundamental class for an analytic cycle and also the notion of a relative fundamental class for an analytic family of cycles. We also generalize to these spaces the geometric intersection theory for analytic cycles with rational positive coefficients and show that it behaves well with respect to analytic families of cycles. We prove that this intersection theory has most of the usual properties of the standard geometric intersection theory on complex manifolds, but with the exception that the intersection cycle of two cycles with positive integral coefficients that intersect properly may have rational coefficients. AMS classification. 32 C 20-32 C 25-32 C 36.


A complex space \(M\) is called nearly smooth if it is normal and if for every point \(x\) in \(M\) there exists an open neighbourhood \(M'\) of \(x\) and a proper, finite and surjective holomorphic map \(q: \tilde{M}'\rightarrow M'\) from a connected complex manifold \(M'\). For instance, any complex space having only quotient singularities is a nearly smooth complex space. In the paper under review, the authors generalize the notion of a fundamental class for an analytic cycle and also the notion of a relative fundamental class for an analytic family of cycles to nearly smooth complex spaces. Moreover, the authors establish a geometric intersection theory for analytic cycles in a nearly smooth complex space that is compatible with the smooth case. Since the category of nearly smooth complex spaces is larger than the category of complex manifolds, the proper intersection of two cycles with positive integral coefficients in a nearly smooth complex space may have rational coefficients.











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