Verdier duality

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Verdier duality is a powerful generalization of Poincaré duality formulated in the language of derived categories and sheaf theory, providing a duality functor that relates cohomology with compact support to ordinary cohomology on possibly singular or non-compact spaces.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf duality theory
mathematical concept
theorem in algebraic topology
theorem in homological algebra
theorem in sheaf theory
appliesTo complex algebraic varieties
locally compact topological spaces
non-compact spaces
possibly singular spaces
schemes
compatibleWith six operations formalism
defines Verdier duality functor NERFINISHED
duality functor
developedIn 20th century
expressesAsIsomorphism H_c^i(X, F) ≅ H^{-i}(X, D_X F)^∨ under finiteness conditions
RHom(F, D_X G) ≅ RHom(Rf_! F, G)
field algebraic geometry
algebraic topology
derived category theory
homological algebra
sheaf theory
formalizedIn language of derived categories of sheaves
language of triangulated categories
frameworkFor Grothendieck’s six functors formalism NERFINISHED
intersection cohomology
perverse sheaves
generalizes Poincaré duality NERFINISHED
hasConsequence Poincaré duality for smooth manifolds
self-duality of intersection cohomology
hasKeyFunctor derived direct image Rf_*
derived direct image with proper support Rf_!
derived functor RHom
extraordinary pullback f^!
hasKeyObject Verdier dualizing complex
dualizing complex
hasVariant Verdier duality for perverse sheaves
equivariant Verdier duality
relative Verdier duality NERFINISHED
implies Poincaré duality for compact oriented manifolds
namedAfter Jean-Louis Verdier NERFINISHED
relatedTo Grothendieck duality theory NERFINISHED
Serre duality NERFINISHED
relates cohomology with compact support
ordinary cohomology
usesConcept Grothendieck duality NERFINISHED
bounded derived category of sheaves
cohomology with compact support
constructible sheaf
derived category
extraordinary inverse image functor
sheaf cohomology

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Poincaré duality generalizedBy Verdier duality
Alexander Beilinson influenced Verdier duality
this entity surface form: theory of perverse sheaves
Grothendieck duality relatedConcept Verdier duality