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Combinatorial intersection cohomology for fans. (English) Zbl 1055.14024
Summary: We investigate minimal extension sheaves on arbitrary (possibly non-rational) fans as an approach toward a combinatorial “virtual” intersection cohomology. These are flabby sheaves of graded modules over a sheaf of polynomial rings, satisfying three relatively simple axioms that characterize the equivariant intersection cohomology sheaves on toric varieties. As in “classical” intersection cohomology, minimal extension sheaves are models for the pure objects of a “perverse category”: a decomposition theorem holds. The analysis of the step from equivariant to non-equivariant intersection cohomology of toric varieties leads us to investigate “quasi-convex” fans (generalizing fans with convex or “co-convex” support), where our approach yields a meaningful virtual intersection cohomology. We characterize such fans by a topological condition and prove a version of Stanley’s “Local-Global” formula relating the global intersection Poincaré polynomial to local data. Virtual intersection cohomology of quasi-convex fans is shown to satisfy Poincaré duality. To describe the local data in terms of the global data for lower-dimensional complete polytopal fans as in the rational case, one needs a “Hard Lefschetz” type result. It requires a vanishing condition that is valid for rational cones, but has not yet been proven in the general case.

##### MSC:
 14F43 Other algebro-geometric (co)homologies (e.g., intersection, equivariant, Lawson, Deligne (co)homologies) 14M25 Toric varieties, Newton polyhedra, Okounkov bodies 32S60 Stratifications; constructible sheaves; intersection cohomology (complex-analytic aspects) 52B20 Lattice polytopes in convex geometry (including relations with commutative algebra and algebraic geometry)
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