Characteristic cycle of the external product of constructible sheaves

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Abstract: We show that the characteristic cycle of the exterior product of constructible complexes is the exterior product of the characteristic cycles of factors. This implies the compatibility of characteristic cycles with smooth pull-back which is a first step in the proof of the index formula.


Let \(k\) be a perfect field, and let \(\Lambda\) be a finite field of characteristic invertible in \(k\). For any smooth scheme \(X\) over \(k\), the category \(D^b_c(X,\Lambda)\) is the category of bounded constructible complexes of \(\Lambda\)-modules on \(X\). For two smooth schemes \(X,Y\) over \(k\), \(\mathcal{F}\in D^b_c(X,\Lambda)\) and \(\mathcal{G}\in D^b_c(Y,\Lambda)\), using the Thom-Sebastian formula (Theorem 4.5) and a conductor formula (Corollary 5.12) for the additive convolution in [\textit{L. Illusie}, Manuscr. Math. 152, No. 1--2, 61--125 (2017; Zbl 1395.14010)], the author proves that the following equality of characteristic cycles: \[ CC(\mathcal{F}\boxtimes \mathcal{G})=CC(\mathcal{F})\boxtimes CC(\mathcal{G}) \] on the cotangent bundle \(T^*(X\times_kY)\), where \(\mathcal{F}\boxtimes \mathcal{G}=\mathrm{pr}_1^*\mathcal{F}\otimes \mathrm{pr}_2^*\mathcal{G} \in D^b_c(X\times_kY)\) is the external product, and the right hand side is the external product of cycles (see (2.1)). This result is an étale analog of the formula (9.4.1) in [\textit{M. Kashiwara} and \textit{P. Schapira}, Sheaves on manifolds. Berlin etc.: Springer-Verlag (1990; Zbl 0709.18001)]. As a consequence, it implies that characteristic cycles are compatible with a smooth pullback.











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