Generalized Novikov additivity for perversity intersection signatures

Let XnX^n be a pseudomanifold and let YXY\subset X be a compact codimension-11 submanifold such that

X=ZYZ,X=Z\bigcup_Y Z^{\prime},

where YXregY\subset\subset X^{\mathrm{reg}}. For a perversity function p\mathfrak{p}, write IHpn/2(X)IH^{n/2}_{\mathfrak{p}}(X) for the corresponding intersection cohomology group, and let σ^p(Z)\hat{\sigma}_{\mathfrak{p}}(Z) denote the signature for cohomology satisfying perversity-p\mathfrak{p} conditions away from YY and relative boundary conditions at YY. Generalized Novikov additivity conjecture. The signature of the intersection pairing on IHpn/2(X)IH^{n/2}_{\mathfrak{p}}(X) satisfies

σp(X)=σ^p(Z)+σ^p(Z).\sigma_{\mathfrak{p}}(X)=\hat{\sigma}_{\mathfrak{p}}(Z)+\hat{\sigma}_{\mathfrak{p}}(Z^{\prime}).

This would generalize Novikov additivity from the setting treated in the paper to arbitrary perversity intersection cohomology on pseudomanifolds; the source presents it as a proposed generalization, and no resolution is supplied.

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Eugenie Hunsicker, “Hodge and signature theorems for a family of manifolds with fibration boundary”, arXiv:math/0501096 (2005).

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