English

Local structures on stratified spaces

Algebraic Topology 2017-02-10 v6

Abstract

We develop a theory of conically smooth stratified spaces and their smooth moduli, including a notion of classifying maps for tangential structures. We characterize continuous space-valued sheaves on these conically smooth stratified spaces in terms of tangential data, and we similarly characterize 1-excisive invariants of stratified spaces. These results are based on the existence of open handlebody decompositions for conically smooth stratified spaces, an inverse function theorem, a tubular neighborhood theorem, an isotopy extension theorem, and functorial resolutions of singularities to smooth manifolds with corners.

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@article{arxiv.1409.0501,
  title  = {Local structures on stratified spaces},
  author = {David Ayala and John Francis and Hiro Lee Tanaka},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1409.0501},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

92 pages, 5 figures; varies slightly from the published version

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