Perverse cohomology and the vanishing index theorem

DOI10.1016/S0166-8641(01)00282-6MaRDI QIDQ1862091zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors David B. Massey

Publication date 10 March 2003

Published in Topology and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0007047

zbMATH Keywords

complex analytic Whitney stratificationperverse cohomologyperverse sheafThom's \(a_f\) conditionvanishing cycle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Germs of analytic sets, local parametrization (32B10) Analytic subsets of affine space (32B15) Topology of analytic spaces (32C18) Analytic sheaves and cohomology groups (32C35)

Abstract: The characteristic cycle of a complex of sheaves on a complex analytic space provides weak information about the complex; essentially, it yields the Euler characteristics of the hypercohomology of normal data to strata. We show how perverse cohomology actually allows one to extract the individual Betti numbers of the hypercohomology of normal data to strata, not merely the Euler characteristics. We apply this to the ``calculation of the vanishing cycles of a complex, and relate this to the work of Parusi'nski and Brianc{c}on, Maisonobe, and Merle on Thom's $a_f$ condition.

Review text

Let \(X\) be a complex analytic space, \(S\) a complex analytic Whitney stratification of \(X\) and \(F^*\) a bounded complex sheaf on \(X\). Here the author shows that perverse cohomology allows one to use the vanishing index theorem to compute the Betti numbers of the hypercohomology of normal data to strata and the vanishing cycle complex \(\varphi_fF^*\). He relates this to the work of Parusinski and Briançon, Maisonobe, and Merle on Thom's \(a_f\) condition. This paper is a continuation of [\textit{D. Massey}, Topology Appl. 103, 55-93 (2000; Zbl 0952.32019)].

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