Vanishing Cycles and Thom's a_f Condition

2006/05/14 by David B. Massey, Massey, David B.
Mathematics · #32B10 #32B15 #32C18 #32C35 #Advanced Combinatorial Mathematics #Algebraic Geometry (math.AG) #Commutative Algebra and Its Applications #FOS: Mathematics #Tensor decomposition and applications #math.AG #msc:32B10 #msc:32B15 #msc:32C18 #msc:32C35

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.math/0605369

14 pages, with a revised introduction

openalex publication_date 2006/05/14 · arxiv created 2007/02/11 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

We give a complete description of the relationship between the vanishing cycles of a complex of sheaves along a function f and Thom's a_f condition.

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