Verdier duality on conically smooth stratified spaces

Abstract

In this paper we prove a duality for constructible sheaves on conically smooth stratified spaces. Here we consider sheaves with values in a stable and bicomplete $\infty$-category equipped with a closed symmetric monoidal structure, and in this setting constructible means locally constant along strata and with dualizable stalks. The crucial point where we need to employ the geometry of conically smooth structures is in showing that Lurie's version of Verdier duality restricts to an equivalence between constructible sheaves and cosheaves: this requires a computation of the exit path $\infty$-category of a compact stratified space, that we obtain via resolution of singularities.