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Dualities between Cellular Sheaves and Cosheaves

Algebraic Topology 2016-07-26 v1 Category Theory K-Theory and Homology

Abstract

This paper affirms a conjecture of MacPherson: that the derived category of cellular sheaves is equivalent to the derived category of cellular cosheaves. We give a self-contained treatment of cellular sheaves and cosheaves and note that certain classical dualities give rise to an exchange of sheaves with cosheaves. Following a result of Pitts that states that cosheaves are cocontinuous functors on the category of sheaves, we use the derived equivalence provided here to gain a novel description of compactly supported sheaf cohomology.

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@article{arxiv.1607.06942,
  title  = {Dualities between Cellular Sheaves and Cosheaves},
  author = {Justin Curry},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.06942},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

32 pages, 2 figures. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1303.3255

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