Intersection homology theory via rectifiable currents

DOI10.1007/S00526-003-0222-0MaRDI QIDQ1879425zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Publication date 22 September 2004

Published in Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00526-003-0222-0

Stratifications; constructible sheaves; intersection cohomology (complex-analytic aspects) (32S60) Geometric measure and integration theory, integral and normal currents in optimization (49Q15) Variational problems in a geometric measure-theoretic setting (49Q20) Stratified sets (58A35)

Review text

On a differentiable manifold, there is a representation of ordinary homology theory by so called ``rectifiable currents which is a nice setting for variational problems on manifolds see \textit{H. Federer}'s classical book [Geometric mesure theory, New York: Springer Verlag (1969; Zbl 0176.00801)]. Recently much interest has been put on the study of manifolds with singularities. In this case, a natural homology theory is the intersection homology theory introduced by \textit{R. MacPherson} and \textit{M. Goresky} [Topology 19, 135--165 (1980; Zbl 0448.55004), Invent. Math. 72, 77--129 (1983; Zbl 0529.55007)]. What has been achieved in this paper is a rectifiable currents' version of intersection homology theory on stratified pseudomanifolds which provides the foundation for the study of variational problems on manifolds with singularities.

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