{ "id": "1402.5720", "version": "v1", "published": "2014-02-24T04:23:15.000Z", "updated": "2014-02-24T04:23:15.000Z", "title": "Characteristic cycle and the Euler number of a constructible sheaf on a surface", "authors": [ "Takeshi Saito" ], "comment": "34 pages", "categories": [ "math.AG" ], "abstract": "We define the characteristic cycle of a constructible sheaf on a smooth surface in the cotangent bundle. We prove that the intersection number with the 0-section equals the Euler number and that the total dimension of vanishing cycles at an isolated characteristic point is also computed as an intersection number.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2014-02-24T04:23:15.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "14F20", "14G17", "11S15" ], "keywords": [ "euler number", "characteristic cycle", "constructible sheaf", "intersection number", "smooth surface" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 34, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2014arXiv1402.5720S" } } }