Download or read book Topological Invariants of Stratified Spaces written by Markus Banagl and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-02-16 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The central theme of this book is the restoration of Poincaré duality on stratified singular spaces by using Verdier-self-dual sheaves such as the prototypical intersection chain sheaf on a complex variety. Highlights include complete and detailed proofs of decomposition theorems for self-dual sheaves, explanation of methods for computing twisted characteristic classes and an introduction to the author's theory of non-Witt spaces and Lagrangian structures.