Cellular cosheaf homology are cosheaf homology

Daisuke Kishimoto, Yasutomo Yushima

Published 2022-02-08Version 1

A cosheaf is the dual notion of a sheaf, but we cannot define its homology as the formal dual of sheaf cohomology, in general, because of the lack of the cosheafification. A cellular cosheaf is a contravariant functor from the face poset of a CW complex to the category of abelian groups. We show that given a cellular cosheaf $F$, there is a natural way to associate a cosheaf $\widehat{F}$, for which we can define homology as the formal dual of sheaf cohomology, such that the Borel-Moore homology of $F$ is isomorphic to the homology of $\widehat{F}$ whenever the underlying CW complex of $F$ is a simplicial complex.