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Lectures on Characteristic Classes of Constructible Functions

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Topics in Cohomological Studies of Algebraic Varieties

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The following lectures were delivered at the Mini-School “Charac- teristic classes of singular varieties” in Banach Center, 23–27 April 2002, by Jörg Schürmann. These lectures discuss the calculus of characteristic classes associated with constructible functions on possibly singular varieties, and focus on the specialization properties. The point of view of characteristic classes of Lagrangian cycles is emphasized. A Verdier-type R.iemann-Roch theorem is discussed.1

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Schürmann, J. (2005). Lectures on Characteristic Classes of Constructible Functions. In: Pragacz, P. (eds) Topics in Cohomological Studies of Algebraic Varieties. Trends in Mathematics. Birkhäuser Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-7643-7342-3_7

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