Decomposition, purity and fibrations by normal crossing divisors
arXiv:1811.04774
Abstract
We give a simple geometric proof of the decomposition theorem in terms of Thom-Whitney stratifications by reduction to fibrations by normal crossings divisors over the strata and explain the relation with the local purity theorem an unpublished result of Deligne and Gabber.
arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1302.5814