Yutaka Matsui; Kiyoshi Takeuchi
ADVANCES IN MATHEMATICS ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE 212 (1) 191 - 224 0001-8708 2007/06
[Refereed] Various topological properties of projective duality between real projective varieties and their duals are obtained by making use of the microlocal theory of (subanalytically) constructible sheaves developed by Kashiwara [M. Kashiwara, Index theorem for constructible sheaves, Asterisque 130 (1985) 193-209] and Kash i wara-Schapi ra [M. Kashiwara, P. Schapira, Sheaves on Manifolds, Grundlehren Math. Wiss., vol. 292, Springer, Berlin-Heidelberg-New York, 1990]. In particular, we prove in the real setting some results similar to the ones proved by Ernstrom in the complex case [L. Ernstrom, Topological Radon transforms and the local Euler obstruction, Duke Math. J. 76 (1994) 1-21]. For this purpose, we describe the characteristic cycles of topological Radon transforms of constructible functions in terms of curvatures of strata in real projective spaces. (C) 2006 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.