A Remark on the Topology at Infinity of a Polynomial Mapping F: Cn→Cn via Intersection Homology ()
1. Introduction
In [1] , Guillaume and Anna Valette provide a criteria for properness of a polynomial mapping
. They construct a real algebraic singular variety
satisfying the following property: if the set of critical values of
is empty then
is not proper if and only if the 2-dimensional homology or intersection homology (with any perversity) of
is not trivial ( [1] , Theorem 3.2). This result provides a new approach for the study of the well-known Jacobian Conjecture, which is still open until today, even in the two-dimensional case (see, for example, [3] ). In [2] , the result of [1] is generalized in the general case
, where
, with an additional condition ( [2] , Theorem 4.5). The variety
is a real algebraic singular variety of dimension
in some
, where
, the singular set of which is contained in
, where
is the set of critical values and
is the asymptotic set of
.
This paper proves that if
is a non-proper generic dominant poly- nomial mapping, then the 2-dimensional homology and intersection homology (with any perversity) of
are not trivial. We prove that this result is also true for a non-proper generic dominant polynomial mapping
, with the same additional condition than in [2] . To prove these results, we use the Transversality Theorem of Thom: if
is non-proper generic dominant polynomial mapping, we can construct an adapted
-allowable chain (in generic position) providing non triviality of homology and intersection homology of the variety
, for any perversity
(Theorems 5.1 and 5.2).
In order to compute the intersection homology of the variety
in the case
, we have to stratify the set
. Furthermore, the intersection homology of the variety
does not depend on the stratification if we use a locally topologically trivial stratification. It is well-known that a Whitney stratification is a Thom-Mather stratification and a Thom-Mather stratification is a locally topologically trivial stratification (see [4] [5] [6] [7] ). In order to prove the main result, we use two facts: In [6] , Thom defined a partition of the set
by “constant rank”, which is a local Thom-Mather stratification; in [2] , the authors provide a Whitney stratification of the asymptotic set
. One important point for the proof of the princial results of this paper is the following: we show that in general the set
is not closed, so we cannot define a (global) stratification of
satisfying the frontier condition. Hence, we cannot define a (global) Thom-Mather stratification of
. However, we prove that the set
is closed and
. This fact allows us to show that there exists a Thom-Mather stratification of the set
compatible with the partition of the set
defined by Thom in [6] and com- patible with the Whitney stratification of the set
defined in [2] (Theorem 4.6).
This paper provides also some examples to light the results. Moreover, these ex- amples provide also some topological properties of the well-known critical values set
associated to a complex polynomial mapping
, for instance: in general, the set
is not closed; the set
is not smooth;
is not pure dimensional if
is not dominant. Via these examples, we make clear also the well-known Thom-Mather partition of
defined by Thom in [6] .
2. Preliminaries
In this section we set-up our framework. All the varieties we consider in this article are semi-algebraic.
2.1. Intersection Homology
We briefly recall the definition of intersection homology. For details, we refer to the fundamental work of M. Goresky and R. MacPherson [8] (see also [4] ).
Definition 2.1. Let
be a
-dimensional semi-algebraic set. A semi-algebraic stratification of
is the data of a finite semi-algebraic filtration
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such that for every
, the set
is either an emptyset or a manifold of dimension
. A connected component of
is called a stratum of
.
Let
be a stratum of
and
its closure in
. If
is the union of strata of
, for all strata
of
, then we say that the stratification of
satisfies the frontier condition.
Definition 2.2 (see [6] [9] ). Let
be a variety in a smooth variety
. We say that a stratification of
is a Thom-Mather stratification if each stratum
is a dif- ferentiable variety of class
and if for each
, we have:
an open neighbourhood (tubular neighbourhood)
of
in
,
a continuous retraction
of
on
,
a continuous function
which is
on the smooth part of
,
such that
and if
, then
i) the restricted mapping
is a smooth immersion,
ii) for
such that
, we have the following relations of com- mutation:
1) ![]()
2) ![]()
when the two members of these formulas are defined.
A Thom-Mather stratification satisfies the frontier conditions.
We denote by
the open cone on the space
, the cone on the empty set being a point. Observe that if
is a stratified set then
is stratified by the cones over the strata of
and an additional
-dimensional stratum (the vertex of the cone).
Definition 2.3. A stratification of
is said to be locally topologically trivial if for every
,
, there is an open neighborhood
of
in
, a stratified set
and a semi-algebraic homeomorphism
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such that
maps the strata of
(induced stratification) onto the strata of
(product stratification).
Theorem 2.4 (see [6] [7] ). A Thom-Mather stratification is a locally topologically trivial stratification.
Definition 2.5 ( [7] ). One says that the Whitney
condition is realized for a stratification if for each pair of strata
and for any
one has: Let
be a sequence of points in
with limit
and let
be a sequence of points in
tending to
, assume that the sequence of tangent spaces
admits a limit
for
tending to
(in a suitable Grassmanian manifold) and that the sequence of directions
admits a limit
for
tending to
(in the corresponding projective manifold), then
.
A stratification satisfying the Whitney
condition is called a Whitney stra- tification.
Theorem 2.6 ( [5] ). Every Whitney stratification is a Thom-Mather stratification, hence satisfies the topological triviality.
The definition of perversities has originally been given by Goresky and MacPherson:
Definition 2.7. A perversity is an (m + 1)-uple of integers
such that
and
, for
.
Traditionally we denote the zero perversity by
, the maximal per- versity by
, and the middle perversities by
(lower middle) and ![]()
(upper middle). We say that the perversities
and
are complementary if
.
Let
be a semi-algebraic variety such that
admits a locally topologically trivial stratification. We say that a semi-algebraic subset
is
-allowable if
(2.8) ![]()
Define
to be the
-vector subspace of
consisting in the chains
such that
is
-allowable and
is
-allowable.
Definition 2.9 The
intersection homology group with perversity
, with real coefficients, denoted by
, is the
homology group of the chain complex
.
Notice that, the notation
refers to the intersection homology with compact supports, the notation
refers to the intersection homology with closed supports. In the compact case, they coincide.
Theorem 2.10 ( [8] [10] ) The intersection homology is independent on the choice of the stratification satisfying the locally topologically trivial conditions.
The Poincaré duality holds for the intersection homology of a (singular) variety:
Theorem 2.11 (Goresky, MacPherson [8] ). For any orientable compact stratified semi-algebraic
-dimensional variety
, the generalized Poincaré duality holds:
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where
and
are complementary perversities.
For the non-compact case, we have:
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2.2. The Asymptotic Set
Let
be a polynomial mapping. Let us denote by
the set of points at which
is non proper, i.e.,
(2.12) ![]()
where
is the Euclidean norm of
in
. The set
is called the asymptotic set of
.
In this paper, we will use the following important theorem:
Theorem 2.13. [11] Let
be a polynomial mapping. If
is do- minant, i.e.,
, then
is either an empty set or a hypersurface.
3. The Variety VF
We recall in this section the construction of the variety
and the results obtained in [1] and [2] : Let
be a polynomial mapping. We consider
as a real mapping
. By
we mean the set of critical points of
. Thanks to the lemma 2.1 of [1] , there exists a covering
of
by semi-algebraic open subsets (in
) such that on every element of this covering, the mapping
induces a diffeomorphism onto its image. We may find some semi- algebraic closed subsets
(in
) which cover
as well. By the Mosto- wski’s Separation Lemma (see [12] , p. 246), for each
, there exists a Nash function
, such that
is positive on
and negative on
. We can choose the Nash functions
such that
tends to zero where
is a sequence in
tending to infinity. We define
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that means,
is the closure of the image of
by
.
The variety
is a real algebraic singular variety of dimension
in
, with
, the singular set of which is contained in
, where
is the set of critical values and
is the asymptotic set of
.
Theorem 3.1 ( [2] ). Let
be a generically finite polynomial mapping with nowhere vanishing Jacobian. There exists a filtration of
:
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such that:
1) for any
,
,
2) the corresponding stratification satisfies the Whitney
condition.
Recall the condition “
is nowhere vanishing Jacobian” means that the set of critical values
of
is an emptyset.
The following corollary comes directly from the Theorem 3.1 above.
Corollary 3.2. Let
be a generically finite polynomial mapping. Then there exists a Whitney stratification of the asymptotic set
.
Theorem 3.3 ( [1] ). Let
be a polynomial mapping with nowhere vanishing Jacobian. The following conditions are equivalent:
1)
is non proper,
2)
,
3)
for any perversity
,
4)
for some perversity
.
Form here, we denote by
the homogeneous component of
of highest degree, or the leading form of
.
Theorem 3.4 [2] Let
be a polynomial mapping with nowhere vanishing Jacobian. If
, where
is the leading form of
, then the following conditions are equivalent:
1)
is non proper,
2) ![]()
3)
for any (or some) perversity ![]()
4)
, for any (or some) perversity
.
Notice that with the notations
(resp.
), we mean the homology (resp., the intersection homology) with both compact supports and closed supports.
Remark 3.5. There exist may-be a lots of varieites
associated to the same polynomial mapping
, but for any variety
, its properties in the Theorems 3.3 and 3.4 do not change.
The purpose of this paper is to prove that if
is a non-proper generic dominant polynomial mapping, then the 2-dimensional homology and in- tersection homology (with any perversity) of
are not trivial. In order to compute the intersection homology of the variety
in the case
, we have to stratify the set
. Furthermore, the intersection homology of the variety
does not depend on the stratification of
if we use a locally topologically trivial stratification. By theorem 2.4, a Thom-Mather stratification is a locally topologically trivial stratification. In the following section, we provide an explicit Thom-Mather stratification of the set
.
4. A Thom-Mather Stratification of the Set ![]()
We begin this section by giving an example to show that in general the set
of a polynomial mapping
is neither closed, nor smooth, nor pure dimen- sional. Recall that a set
is pure dimensional of dimension
if any point of this set admits a
-dimensional neighbourhood in
.
Example 4.1. Let us consider the polynomial mapping
such that
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Then, the jacobian determinant
of
is given by
. If
then
or
or
. So we have the following cases:
+ if
then
and the axis
is contained in
,
+ if
then
and the axis
is contained in
,
+ if
then
. We observe that: if
then
; If
then
and
. Moreover, since
and
, then
, this implies
. Furthermore, we have
. Let
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then
is contained in
.
So, we have
(see Figure 1).
Notice that
does not contain neither
, nor the curve
of equation
in the plane
. However
and this is the singular point of
. So, the set
is neither closed, nor smooth, nor pure dimensional.
From the example 4.1, in general the set
is not closed, so we cannot stratify
in such a way that the stratification satisfies the frontier condition. The following proposition allows us to provide a stratification satisfying the frontier con- dition of the set
.
Proposition 4.2. The set
is closed. Moreover, we have
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To prove this proposition, we need the three following lemmas.
Lemma 4.3. For a polynomial mapping
, the set of the solutions of
is closed, where
is the jacobian determinant of
at
.
Chứng minh. Considering a sequence
contained in the set
such that
tends to
. Since
is a polynomial mapping, then
is also a polynomial mapping and
is continuous. Hence
tends to
. Since
for all
, we have
. So
belongs to the set
. We conclude that the set of the solutions of
is closed. ![]()
Lemma 4.4. The set
is contained in the set
.
Proof. Let
. There exists a sequence
such that
tends to
. Then there exists a sequence
contained in the set
such that
, for all
, where
is the determinant of the Jacobian
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Figure 1. The set
of the polynomial mapping
.
matrix of
. Assume that the sequence
tends to
and
is finite. Since the set
is closed, then
belongs to the set
. Moreover, since
is a polynomial mapping, then
tends to
. Hence
tends to
and
. Since
is finite, then
, which provides the contradiction. Then
tends to infinity and
belongs to
. ![]()
Considering now the graph of
in
, that means
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Let
be the projective closure of
in
. We have the following lemma:
Lemma 4.5. The asymptotic set
of a polynomial mapping
is the image of the set
by the canonical projection
.
This lemma is well-known. In fact, this is the first observation of Jelonek [11] when he studied the geometry of the asymtotic set
. We can find this fact, for example, in the introduction of [1] . We provide here a demonstration of this observation.
Proof. Firstly, we show the inclusion
. Let
, there exists a sequence
such that
tends to infinity and
tends to
. The limit of the sequence
is
, where
and
.
Now we show the inclusion
. Let
, then there exists
such that
but
. Then we have
. Moreover, there exists a sequence
such that
tends to
. Hence the sequence
tends to
and
tends to
. Since
is a polynomial mapping, then
tends to
. But
, then
, and
tends to infinity. Thus we have
. ![]()
We prove now the proposition 4.2.
Proof. By the lemma 4.5, the set
is the image of the set
by the canonical projection
. Then the set
is closed. Moreover, we have
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By the lemma 4.4, we have
, then
Consequently, the set
is closed. ![]()
Theorem 4.6. Let
be a generically finite polynomial mapping. Let
be the partition of
defined by Thom in [6] and let
be the stratification of
defined in [2] (see Theorem 3.1 and Corollary 3.2). Then there exists a Thom-Mather stratification of the set
compatible with
and
.
Proof. By the Proposition 4.2, we have
. So, in order to define a Thom-Mather stratification of
, we have to define a Thom- Mather stratification of the set
.
Considering the partition
of
defined by Thom [6] and the stra- tification
of
defined in [2] . Notice that:
+
is a local Thom-Mather partition ( [6] , Theorem 4.B.1).
+ Since
is a generically finite polynomial mapping, then by the Theorem 4.1 in [2] (see Theorem 3.1),
is a Whitney stratification. Hence
is a Thom-Mather stratification (Theorem 2.6).
We define now a partition of of
, denoted by
, as follows:
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Since
is a local Thom-Mather partition, then
is a Thom-Mather strati- fication. Since a Thom-Mather stratification is a particular case of a Whitney stra- tification (Theorem 2.6), then we can use the result in [13] , we have
is a Thom-Mather stratification (see Tranversal intersection of stratifications in [13] , p. 4).
Finally, we define a stratification of
, denoted by
, as follows:
.
By the Proposition 4.2, since
is closed, then the obtained partition is a Thom-Mather stratification. It is clear that this stratification is compatible with
and
defined by [6] and [2] , respectively. ![]()
Remark 4.7. Another way to define a Thom-Mather stratification of the asymptotic set
is to use “la méthode des façons” in [14] . In fact, the stratification of the asymptotic set
defined by “la méthode des façons” is a Thom-Mather stratification (see [15] ).
The following example is for making clear the idea “define a partition of the set
by constant rank” defined by Thom in [6] .
Example 4.8. Let us consider the example 4.1: let
be the polynomial mapping such that
.
We provide a partition of the set
by “constant rank” defined by Thom in [6] of this example, consisted in the five following steps.
1) Step 1: Subdividing the singular set
of
into subvarieties
, where
. From the example 4.1, we have:
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2) Step 2: Subdividing the sets
in step 1 into smooth varieties. Since
is not smooth, so we need to subdivide
into
,
and
.
3) Step 3: Making a partition of the set
from the subsets
in the steps 1 and 2. Since
, so let us consider:
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We get a partition of
.
4) Step 4: Computing
. We have
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5) Step 5: Computing
We have
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Recall that ![]()
Each
is a
-dimensional smooth variety of
. So we get a partition of
by smooth varieties (see Figure 2).
Remark 4.9. If
is smooth, then we can define easily a stratification of the set
. But in general,
is not smooth. We can check this fact in the following example:
.
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Figure 2. The partition of
defined by Thom of the polynomial mapping
.
Remark 4.10. In all examples in this paper and in [16] , the set
is pure dimensional if
is dominant. So we can suggest the following conjecture:
Conjecture 4.11. If
is a dominant polynomial mapping then the set
is pure dimensional.
Notice that the above conjecture is not true in the case
is not dominant, as shown in the following example:
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5. The Homology and Intersection Homology of the Variety VF
In this section, we prove the principal results of the paper, which are the two following theorems.
Theorem 5.1. Let
be a non-proper generic dominant polynomial mapping. Then for any variety
associated to
, we have
1)
,
2)
for any perversity
,
3)
for some perversity
.
Theorem 5.2. Let
be a non-proper generic dominant poly-
nomial mapping. If
, where
is the leading form of
,
then for any variety
associated to
, we have
1) ![]()
2)
for any (or some) perversity
,
3)
, for any (or some) perversity
.
Before proving these theorems, we recall some necessary definitions and lemmas.
Definition 5.3. A semi-algebraic family of sets (parametrized by
) is a semi- algebraic set
, the last variable being considered as parameter.
Remark 5.4. A semi-algebraic set
will be considered as a family para- metrized by
. We write
, for “the fiber of
at t”, i.e.:
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Lemma 5.5 ( [1] lemma 3.1). Let
be a
-cycle and let
be a com- pact semi-algebraic family of sets with
for any
. Assume that
bounds a
-chain in each
,
small enough. Then
bounds a chain in
.
Definition 5.6 ( [1] ). Given a subset
, we define the “tangent cone at infinity”, called “contour apparent à l'infini” in [16] by:
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Lemma 5.7 ( [2] lemma 4.10). Let
be a polynomial mapping and
be the zero locus of
, where
is the leading form of
. If
is a subset of
such that
is bounded, then
is a subset of
, where
.
Proof. (Proof of the Theorem 5.1).
The proof of this theorem consists into three steps:
+ In the first step, we use the Transversality Theorem of Thom (see [17] , p. 34): if
is non-proper generic dominant polynomial mapping, we can construct an adapted
-allowable chain in generic position providing non triviality of homology and intersection homology of the variety
, for any perversity
.
+ In the second step, we use the same idea than in [1] to prove that the chain that we create in the first step cannot bound a
-chain in
.
+ In the third step, we provide an explicit stratification of the singular set of
, so that the properties of the homology and the intersection homology of the set
in the theorem do not change for all the varieties
associated to
.
a) Step 1: Let
be a generic polynomial mapping, then
( [1] , proposition 2.3). Assume that
. We claim that
. In fact, since
is dominant, then by the Theorem 2.11, we have
. Moreover, since
is generic then
. Thanks again to the genericity of
, we have
. Let
, then there exists a complex Puiseux arc
in
, where
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(with
is a negative integer,
is an unit vector of
and
a small 2-dimensional disc centered in 0 and radius
) tending to infinity in such a way that
converges to
. Then, the mapping
, where
(see the construction of the variety
, Section 3) provides a singular
-simplex in
that we will denote by
. We prove now the simplex
is
-allowable for any perversity
. In fact, since
, the condition (see 2.8)
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where
holds for any perversity
since
.
Notice that
is not smooth in general. In fact,
. Let us consider a stratum
of the stratification of
defined in the Theorem 4.6 and denote
. Assume that
, we can choose the Puiseux arc
such that
lies in the regular part of
, thanks to the genericity of
. In fact, this comes from the generic position of transversality. So
is
- allowable. Hence we only need to consider the cases
and
. Then:
1) If
intersects
: since
, then we have
. Considering the condition
(5.8) ![]()
We see that
, for
and
. So the condition (5.8) holds.
2) If
does not meet
, then the condition
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holds always.
In conclusion, the simplex
is
-allowable for any perversity
.
We can always choose the Puiseux arc such that the support of
lies in the regular part of
and
bounds a 2-dimensional singular chain e of
. So
is a
-allowable cycle of
.
b) Step 2: We claim that
cannot bound a
-chain in
. Assume otherwise, i.e. assume that there is a 3-chain in
, satisfying
. Let
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By definition 5.6, the sets
and
are subsets of
. Observe that, in a neighborhood of infinity,
coincides with the support of the Puiseux arc
. The set
is equal to
(denoting the orbit of
under the action of
on
,
). Let
be the zero locus of the leading forms
. Since
and
are bounded, then by lemma 5.7, the sets
and
are subsets of
.
For
large enough, the sphere
with center 0 and radius
in
is transverse to
and
(at regular points). Let
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Then
is a chain bounding the chain
. Considering a semi-algebraic strong deformation retraction
, where
is a neighborhood of
in
onto
. Considering
as a parameter, we have the following semi- algebraic families of chains:
1)
, for
large enough, then
is contained in
,
2)
, where
,
3)
, we have
,
4)
, we have
.
As, near infinity,
coincides with the intersection of the support of the arc
with
, for
large enough the class of
in
is nonzero.
Let
, consider
as a parameter, and let
,
,
as well as
the corresponding semi-algebraic families of chains.
Let us denote by
the closure of
, and set
. Since the strong deformation retraction
is the identity on
, we see that
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Let us denote by
the closure of
, and set
. Since
bounds
, then
is contained in
. We have
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The class of
in
is, up to a product with a nonzero constant, equal to the generator of
. Therefore, since
bounds the chain
, the cycle
must bound a chain in
as well. By Lemma 5.5, this implies that
bounds a chain in
which is included in
.
The set
is a projective variety which is an union of cones in
. Since
, so
and
. The cycle
thus bounds a chain in
, which is a finite union of circles, that provides a contradiction.
c) Step 3: We prove at first the afirmation: If
is dominant, then
is generically finite. Recall that
is generically finite if there exists a subset
in the target space such that
is dense in
and for any
, the cardinality of
is finite. To prove that
is generically finite, we do two steps:
+ Prove that
. In fact, by the definition of
(see (2.12)), it is clear that
. Take now
, then there exists a sequence
such that
tends to
. If
tends to infinity, then
belongs to
. If
does not tend to infinity, assume that
tends to
. Since
is a polynomial mapping and hence is continuous, then
tends to
. Moreover
is a Hausdorff space, then
. This implies that
. Consequently, we have
. We conclude that
.
+ Indicate that there exists a dense subset
in the target space
in the target space such that for any
, the cardinality of
is finite. In fact, let
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Since
is dominant, then by the Theorem 2.13, the dimension of
is
. Hence
is dense in the the target space
. With each
, since
, and since
is a polynomial mapping, then the cardinality of
is finite (see, for example, the Proposition 6 of [11] ). Then
is generically finite.
Since
is generically finite, then by the Theorem 4.6, there exists an explicit Thom-Mather stratification of the set
, which is compatible with the Thom-Mather partition of
defined by [6] and is compatible with the Whitney stratification of
defined in [2] . In other words, there exists an explicit Thom- Mather stratification of the variety
, since
is the singular part of the set
. We use this stratification to calculate the intersection homology of the variety
. Since the obtained stratification is a Thom-Mather stratification, then it is a locally topologically trivial stratification (Theorem 2.6). Hence the intersection homology of the variety
does not depend on the stratification of
(Theorem 2.9). Con- sequently, the properties of the homology and the intersection homology of the variety
in the theorem do not depend on the choice of the varieties associated to the polynomial mapping
. ![]()
We prove now the Theorem 5.2.
Proof. (Proof of the Theorem 5.2).
Assume that
is a non-proper generic dominant polynomial mapping. Similarly to the previous proof, we have:
・ Since
is dominant, then by the Theorem 2.13, we have
. Moreover, since
is generic then
. Thanks again to the genericity of
, we have
. Let
, then there exists a complex Puiseux arc
in
, where
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(with
is a negative integer and
is an unit vector of
) tending to infinity such a way that
converges to
. Since
and
is generic, then we can choose the arc Puiseux
in generic position, that means the simplex
is
-allowable for any perversity
.
・ Now, with the same notations than the above proof, we have: Since
then
. Moreover since
then
and
. The cycle
bounds a chain in
, which is a finite union of circles, that provides a contradiction.
Hence, we get the facts (1) and (2) of the theorem. Moreover, from the Goresky- MacPherson Poincaré Duality Theorem (Theorem 2.11), we have
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where
and
are complementary perversities. Since the chain
that we create in the proof of the Theorem 5.1 can be either a chain with compact supports or a chain with closed supports, so we get the fact (3) of the theorem. ![]()
Remark 5.9. The properties of the homology and intersection homology in the Theorem 5.1 and 5.2 hold for both compact supports and closed supports.
Remark 5.10. From the proofs of the Theorems 5.1 and 5.2, we see that the properties of the intersection homology in these theorems do not hold if
is not dominant. The reason is that the Theorem 2.11 is not true if
is not dominant and then the condition (5.8) does not hold. However, the properties of the homology hold even if
is not dominant. So we have the two following corollaries.
Corollary 5.11. Let
be a non-proper generic polynomial mapping, then
.
Corollary 5.12. Let
be a non-proper generic polynomial mapping. If
, where
is the leading form of
, then
.
Remark 5.13. In the previous papers [1] and [2] , the condition “
is nowhere vanishing Jacobian” (see Theorems 3.3 and 3.4) implies
is dominant. Hence, the condition “
is dominant” in the Theorems 5.1 and 5.2 guarantees the condition of dimension of the set
(see Theorem 2.13). Moreover, we need this condition in this paper also to be free ourself from the condition
, since the condition of dimension of
when
is dominant also guarantees the (generic) tranversal position of the
-allowable chain which provides non triviality of homology and intersection homology of the variety
when
in Theorems 5.1 and 5.2.