Verdier duality

In mathematics, Verdier duality is a cohomological duality in algebraic topology that generalizes Poincaré duality for manifolds. Verdier duality was introduced in 1965 by as an analog for locally compact topological spaces of Alexander Grothendieck's theory of Poincaré duality in étale cohomology for schemes in algebraic geometry. It is thus (together with the said étale theory and for example Grothendieck's coherent duality) one instance of Grothendieck's six operations formalism. Verdier duality generalises the classical Poincaré duality of manifolds in two directions: it applies to continuous maps from one space to another (reducing to the classical case for the unique map from a manifold to a one-point space), and it applies to spaces that fail to be manifolds due to the presence of singularities. It is commonly encountered when studying constructible or perverse sheaves. Verdier duality states that (subject to suitable finiteness conditions discussed below) certain are actually adjoint functors. There are two versions. Global Verdier duality states that for a continuous map of locally compact Hausdorff spaces, the derived functor of the direct image with compact (or proper) supports has a right adjoint in the of sheaves, in other words, for (complexes of) sheaves (of abelian groups) on and on we have Local Verdier duality states that in the derived category of sheaves on Y. It is important to note that the distinction between the global and local versions is that the former relates morphisms between complexes of sheaves in the derived categories, whereas the latter relates internal Hom-complexes and so can be evaluated locally. Taking global sections of both sides in the local statement gives the global Verdier duality. These results hold subject to the compactly supported direct image functor having finite cohomological dimension. This is the case if the there is a bound such that the compactly supported cohomology vanishes for all fibres (where ) and .

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