Relative perversity

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Abstract: We define and study a relative perverse t-structure associated with any finitely presented morphism of schemes f:XoS, with relative perversity equivalent to perversity of the restrictions to all geometric fibres of f. The existence of this t-structure is closely related to perverse t-exactness properties of nearby cycles. This t-structure preserves universally locally acyclic sheaves, and one gets a resulting abelian category mathrmPervmathrmULA(X/S) with many of the same properties familiar in the absolute setting (e.g., noetherian, artinian, compatible with Verdier duality). For S connected and geometrically unibranch with generic point eta, the functor mathrmPervmathrmULA(X/S)omathrmPerv(Xeta) is exact and fully faithful, and its essential image is stable under passage to subquotients. This yields a notion of "good reduction" for perverse sheaves.











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