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Trim resolutions, stringy and Mather classes, and IC characteristic cycles

Algebraic Geometry 2025-12-10 v1

Abstract

We introduce trim resolutions of complex algebraic varieties, a strengthening of the notion of small resolution. We prove that the characteristic cycle of the intersection cohomology sheaf of a variety admitting a trim resolution is irreducible and that for such varieties the stringy and Chern-Mather classes coincide.

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@article{arxiv.2512.07967,
  title  = {Trim resolutions, stringy and Mather classes, and IC characteristic cycles},
  author = {Paolo Aluffi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.07967},
  year   = {2025}
}

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9 pages

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