Ring structure, uniform expressions and intersection homology

arXivmath/9805100MaRDI QIDQ6500908FDOQ6500908

Authors: Jonathan Fine 

Abstract: Although intersection homology lacks a ring structure, certain expressions (called uniform) in the intersection homology of an irreducible projective variety $X$ always give the same value, when computed via the decomposition theorem on any resolution $X_{r}oX$. This paper uses uniform (and non-uniform) expressions to define what is believed to be the usual intersection homology (and its local-global variant) of a convex polytope (or a projective toric variety). Such expressions are generated by the facets, and so may lead to necessary numerical conditions on the flag vector. Most of the concepts, however, apply to more general algebraic varieties, and perhaps some other situations also.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Toric varieties, Newton polyhedra, Okounkov bodies (14M25) Combinatorial properties of polytopes and polyhedra (number of faces, shortest paths, etc.) (52B05) Intersection homology and cohomology in algebraic topology (55N33)

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