Topologies and sheaves on causal manifolds
Abstract
A causal manifold is a manifold endowed with a closed proper cone in the tangent bundle such that the projection is surjective when restricted to the interior of . Let be the antipodal of the polar cone of . An open set of is called -open if its Whitney normal cone contains the interior of . Similarly, is called -open if the micro-support of the constant sheaf on is contained in . We begin by proving that the two notions coincide. Next, we prove that if admits a ``future time function'' the functor of direct images establishes an equivalence of triangulated categories between the derived category of sheaves on micro-supported by and the derived category of sheaves on the manifold endowed with the -topology. This generalizes a result of~\cite{KS90} which dealt with the case of a constant cone in a vector space.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2505.10364,
title = {Topologies and sheaves on causal manifolds},
author = {Pierre Schapira},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.10364},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
Corollary 5.8 of the previous version being false, it has been deleted. Other minor corrections