Notes on Perverse Sheaves and Vanishing Cycles
David B. Massey
Abstract
A working mathematician's summary of many results on the derived category, perverse sheaves, and vanishing cycles. This is the August 2025 version, with a completely revised section on vanishing cycles.
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