SH02-FGC-UNIT. The graded line in a Fourier support comparison

Original programme text: CC0 1.0 Universal. The complete proof below is relative to its named operation imports. The source account at the end distinguishes the published Fourier statements from the ordered-map calculation proved here.

Two constructions of the same Fourier isomorphism can differ on their orientation line. This lesson computes that difference for every continuous linear bundle map, including maps whose rank varies. It then writes the complete support comparison with the initial line insertion and final line contraction separately visible. The resulting sign comes from the two bundle projections in one mixed correspondence, so no decomposition of the kernel of the map is needed.

The published antecedent used here is the vector-bundle Fourier calculus in M. Kashiwara and P. Schapira, Microlocal Study of Sheaves, Astérisque 128 (1985), §2.1. In particular, Proposition 2.1.5 relates proper direct image to inverse image, and exceptional inverse image to ordinary direct image, under Fourier transformation. That statement does not specify the mixed-correspondence antipode transports and the two ordered contractions compared below; those maps are defined and calculated in this lesson.

SH02-FGC-DEPENDENCIES. Maps that the proof uses

Read Fourier functoriality, SH02-FF-CONVENTIONS, SH02-FF-LINEAR-KERNEL and SH02-FF-MATES, for the primitive kernel isomorphism and its chosen adjunction. Read The linear Fourier comparison, SH02-LFT-MATE, SH02-LFT-SUPPORT and SH02-LFT-LINE-ORDER, for the direct comparison, its support square and the right-ordered trace input.

The proof uses SH02-FF-BOUNDS for the bounded-below tensor scope; SH02-LFT-IMP-BC-NU and SH02-LFT-IMP-PF-ADJUNCTION for full locally compact Hausdorff proper-support base change, composition, projection formula, exceptional adjunction and their mate-pasting identities; SH02-LFT-IMP-ORIENTATION for bundle orientation traces and their coordinate-change compatibility; and SH02-FS-COMPARE for the actual halfspace comparison. Every exceptional map has the finite abelian-sheaf dimension bound supplied by the bundle ranks. The line factors are bounded invertible objects, and cut factors are flat sheaves in degree zero. These retain their separate import obligations. No comparison with a differently normalized second Fourier adjunction is used.

SH02-FGC-CONVENTIONS. The two line operations occupy different places

Let BB be locally compact Hausdorff and let h:E1→E2h:E_1\to E_2 be any continuous morphism of real vector bundles of fixed finite ranks n1,n2n_1,n_2 over its identity. Its transpose is r:E2*→E1*r:E_2^*\to E_1^*. The coefficient ring kk is commutative and unital, of finite global dimension. An object FF is arbitrary in Dℝ>0+(E1;k)D^+_{\mathbb R_{>0}}(E_1;k), with a global lower bound and the parameter-space scalar transport specified in SH02-FF-DOMAINS. There is no upper bound, finite-stalk, constructibility, orientability, field, constant-kernel-rank, or manifold-base assumption. The bundle ranks give the finite abelian-sheaf proper-support dimension bounds for the exceptional maps. Locally constant ranks are allowed componentwise only when those bounds remain global. Put

Wi=OEi[ni],L=ωr,D=Rℋom(L,k),ϵ=(−1)n2−n1.(FGC1) W_i=O_{E_i}[n_i],\quad L=\omega_r,\quad D=R\mathcal Hom(L,k),\quad \epsilon=(-1)^{n_2-n_1}. \qquad\text{(FGC1)}

Let Gh:r!T1→T2Rh*⊗LG_h:r^!T_1\to T_2Rh_*\otimes L be the direct comparison LFT17. Let ℓh\ell_h denote the mate-defined FF L3 with its initial FF11 cancellation expanded by the right tensor equivalence FGC21–FGC22 below. The theorem proved here is

ℓh=ϵGh.(FGC2) \ell_h=\epsilon G_h. \qquad\text{(FGC2)}

Define two distinct final endpoint cancellations:

G¯h=(1⊗coev⁡L−1)(Gh⊗1D),ℓ‾hb=(1⊗ev⁡LσL,D)(ℓh⊗1D).(FGC3) \begin{aligned} \overline G_h&=(1\otimes\operatorname{coev}_L^{-1}) (G_h\otimes1_D),\\ \bar\ell_h^{\,b}&= (1\otimes\operatorname{ev}_L\sigma_{L,D}) (\ell_h\otimes1_D). \end{aligned} \qquad\text{(FGC3)}

Here ev⁡L:D⊗L→k\operatorname{ev}_L:D\otimes L\to k, and coev⁡L:k→L⊗D\operatorname{coev}_L:k\to L\otimes D. Their ordering is part of the definition. Since LL has parity n2−n1n_2-n_1,

ev⁡LσL,D=ϵcoev⁡L−1.(FGC4) \operatorname{ev}_L\sigma_{L,D} =\epsilon\operatorname{coev}_L^{-1}. \qquad\text{(FGC4)}

Equations FGC2 and FGC4 imply ℓ‾hb=G¯h\bar\ell_h^{\,b}=\overline G_h. Together with the direct support theorem LFT21, this proves the complete support square written in SH02-FGC-SUPPORT. The input uses LFT-L2, the initial extraction defining L3 uses FGC22, and the final cancellation uses the second line of FGC3. These are three explicitly distinct maps. Using inverse coevaluation at the final original endpoint instead leaves the factor ϵ\epsilon.

SH02-FGC-RAW-MATE. One mixed kernel fixes the adjoint map

Put Xi=Ei×BEi*X_i=E_i\times_BE_i^*, with projections pip_i to EiE_i and qiq_i to Ei*E_i^*. Put Y=E1×BE2*Y=E_1\times_BE_2^*, with projections ss to E1E_1 and qq to E2*E_2^*. The maps are

u(x,η)=(x,rη),v(x,η)=(hx,η),p1u=s,q1u=rq,p2v=hs,q2v=q.(FGC5) u(x,\eta)=(x,r\eta),\qquad v(x,\eta)=(hx,\eta), \quad p_1u=s, \quad q_1u=rq, \quad p_2v=hs, \quad q_2v=q. \qquad\text{(FGC5)}

Let NiN_i and CiC_i be the nonpositive and nonnegative pairing cuts on XiX_i. Write N=u−1N1=v−1N2N=u^{-1}N_1=v^{-1}N_2 and C=u−1C1=v−1C2C=u^{-1}C_1=v^{-1}C_2. Let Pi=TEi*P_i=T_{E_i^*} and let its raw right adjoint be

ℛi(F)=Rqi*RΓNi(pi!F).(FGC6) \mathcal R_i(F)=Rq_{i*}R\Gamma_{N_i}(p_i^!F). \qquad\text{(FGC6)}

The bundle formula for pip_i uses the orientation of its fiber Ei*E_i^*, identified positively with WiW_i. This presentation uses the raw tensor-Hom/proper-support adjunction; it has no separately chosen second Fourier adjunction.

Apply original FF primitive exchange to r. Its left-adjoint map is

Ar:h−1P2⟶P1Rr!.(FGC7) A_r:h^{-1}P_2\longrightarrow P_1Rr_!. \qquad\text{(FGC7)}

The two sides identify, by the actual proper-support base-change and projection-formula maps, with the same mixed kernel functor

K⟼Rs!(q−1K⊗kN).(FGC8) K\longmapsto Rs_!(q^{-1}K\otimes k_N). \qquad\text{(FGC8)}

On the left use the cartesian (v,s,p2,h)(v,s,p_2,h) square. On the right use the cartesian (u,q,q1,r)(u,q,q_1,r) square, the flat cut, and p1u=sp_1u=s. This is exactly the FF6 construction applied to r, rather than a newly chosen isomorphism.

The right adjoint of FGC8 is Rq*RΓNs!Rq_*R\Gamma_Ns^!. Consequently the actual right mate of FGC7 is the following chain:

Λh(F):r!ℛ1F⟶Rq*u!RΓN1p1!F⟶Rq*RΓN(u!p1!F)⟶Rq*RΓNs!F⟶Rq2*RΓN2(Rv*s!F)⟶Rq2*RΓN2(p2!Rh*F)=ℛ2Rh*F.(FGC9) \begin{aligned} \Lambda_h(F):r^!\mathcal R_1F &\longrightarrow Rq_*u^!R\Gamma_{N_1}p_1^!F\\ &\longrightarrow Rq_*R\Gamma_N(u^!p_1^!F)\\ &\longrightarrow Rq_*R\Gamma_Ns^!F\\ &\longrightarrow Rq_{2*}R\Gamma_{N_2}(Rv_*s^!F)\\ &\longrightarrow Rq_{2*}R\Gamma_{N_2}(p_2^!Rh_*F) =\mathcal R_2Rh_*F. \end{aligned} \qquad\text{(FGC9)}

The first arrow is the exceptional/ordinary-image exchange, the second the exceptional mate of the flat-cut projection formula, and the third exceptional transitivity. The fourth is ordinary-image composition and the ordinary tensor-Hom exchange for the pulled-back cut. The last uses the inverse of

p2!Rh*→∼Rv*s!,(FGC10) p_2^!Rh_*\xrightarrow{\sim}Rv_*s^!, \qquad\text{(FGC10)}

which is the right mate of proper-support base change h−1Rp2!→Rs!v−1h^{-1}Rp_{2!}\to Rs_!v^{-1}. In particular FGC10 is not an assertion that arbitrary ordinary base change is invertible.

To verify the map in FGC9, the two Hom identifications for FGC7 pass through Hom⁡(K,Rq*RΓNs!F)\operatorname{Hom}(K,Rq_*R\Gamma_Ns^!F), using the tensor-Hom adjunction for exactly the coefficient in FGC8. Reversing the left proper-kernel identifications gives the last two arrows of FGC9, and reversing the right ones gives its first three arrows. Under these identifications precomposition by ArA_r is the identity on that middle Hom group. Hence FGC9 is its right mate, by the adjunction bijection. Equivalently, this is the mate of the two FF6 squares pasted together.

SH02-FGC-ORDINARY. Changing the cut by ordinary inverse image

Write AiA_i for ordinary inverse image by the antipode of Ei*E_i^*. Let ziz_i on XiX_i negate only its covector coordinate, and let z on Y negate eta only. Then

pizi=pi,sz=s,uz=z1u,vz=z2v,qizi=Aiqi,qz=A2q.(FGC11) p_i z_i=p_i,\quad sz=s,\quad uz=z_1u,\quad vz=z_2v, \quad q_i z_i=A_iq_i, \quad qz=A_2q. \qquad\text{(FGC11)}

In FGC11 an AiA_i on a space denotes its antipode map; in functor expressions it denotes ordinary inverse image by that map. The maps ziz_i and z exchange N and C and act ordinarily as identity on coefficients pulled from pip_i or s, including every explicitly base-pulled WiW_i.

There is an ordinary change-of-coordinates isomorphism

Ii(F):AiℛiF⟶Rqi*RΓCi(pi!F)=UiF⊗Wi.(FGC12) I_i(F):A_i\mathcal R_iF \longrightarrow Rq_{i*}R\Gamma_{C_i}(p_i^!F) =U_iF\otimes W_i. \qquad\text{(FGC12)}

In this definition the coefficient transport zi−1pi!F→pi!Fz_i^{-1}p_i^!F\to p_i^!F is obtained from pi!F=pi−1F⊗Wip_i^!F=p_i^{-1}F\otimes W_i using ordinary identity on the pulled-back coefficient and line. Call this transport κi\kappa_i. It is not the exceptional mate for pizi=pip_i z_i=p_i.

Let di:Vi→ℛid_i:V_i\to\mathcal R_i be the fixed raw-adjoint comparison, with Vi=AiTi⊗WiV_i=A_iT_i\otimes W_i. The literal FS6 chain, with its inequalities interchanged, gives the map identity

IiAi(di)=ci⊗1Wi.(FGC13) I_i\,A_i(d_i)=c_i\otimes1_{W_i}. \qquad\text{(FGC13)}

Indeed applying the ordinary output antipode to that chain changes its positive proper cut to the negative proper cut and its negative local support to the positive local support. These are exactly the arrows and inverses defining cic_i. The coefficient WiW_i stays on the right throughout; there is no exceptional coordinate action on it in FGC12/FGC13. This checks the specified did_i, not a right mate chosen after cic_i.

SH02-FGC-ORIENTATION. The transitivity square detects the sign

For the following computation let J=p1!FJ=p_1^!F and let τ:u!J→s!F\tau:u^!J\to s^!F be exceptional transitivity. Denote the canonical exceptional exchanges by

χu(J):z−1u!J⟶u!z1−1J,χp1(F):z1−1p1!F⟶p1!F,χs(F):z−1s!F⟶s!F.(FGC14) \begin{aligned} \chi_u(J)&:z^{-1}u^!J\longrightarrow u^!z_1^{-1}J,\\ \chi_{p_1}(F)&:z_1^{-1}p_1^!F\longrightarrow p_1^!F,\\ \chi_s(F)&:z^{-1}s^!F\longrightarrow s^!F. \end{aligned} \qquad\text{(FGC14)}

Exceptional transitivity and its counit compatibility give the exactly typed commutative square

τu!χp1(F)χu(J)=χs(F)z−1τ:z−1u!p1!F⟶s!F.(FGC15) \tau\,u^!\chi_{p_1}(F)\,\chi_u(J) =\chi_s(F)\,z^{-1}\tau: z^{-1}u^!p_1^!F\longrightarrow s^!F. \qquad\text{(FGC15)}

Both routes are the exceptional exchange for sz=ssz=s after expanding s=p1us=p_1u. To check its normalization, take the proper-support adjunct: the two composite counits are the trace for s, and proper-support coordinate-change pasting identifies the same negation of its fiber. The composite-adjunction counit identity then proves FGC15.

Let κs:z−1s!F→s!F\kappa_s:z^{-1}s^!F\to s^!F be ordinary coefficient transport in s!F=s−1F⊗W2s^!F=s^{-1}F\otimes W_2. The maps p1p_1 and s are bundle projections of ranks n1n_1 and n2n_2. Their actual exceptional exchanges therefore satisfy

χp1(F)=(−1)n1κ1(F),χs(F)=(−1)n2κs(F).(FGC16) \chi_{p_1}(F)=(-1)^{n_1}\kappa_1(F),\qquad \chi_s(F)=(-1)^{n_2}\kappa_s(F). \qquad\text{(FGC16)}

This follows on arbitrary F from the coefficient orientation trace: negation of a rank-nin_i integration fiber has degree (−1)ni(-1)^{n_i}, and the coefficient pullback is unchanged. The same orientation local-system maps appear in every trivialization, so the equality is global even for nonorientable bundles. These are projection calculations only.

Substitute FGC16 into FGC15 and solve for the following composite:

κs(z−1τ)χu(J)−1u!κ1−1=ϵτ:u!p1!F⟶s!F.(FGC17) \kappa_s\,(z^{-1}\tau)\, \chi_u(J)^{-1}\,u^!\kappa_1^{-1} =\epsilon\,\tau: u^!p_1^!F\longrightarrow s^!F. \qquad\text{(FGC17)}

The successive objects on its left are u!Ju^!J, u!z1−1Ju^!z_1^{-1}J, z−1u!Jz^{-1}u^!J, z−1s!Fz^{-1}s^!F, and s!Fs^!F. Thus every arrow has the displayed direction; no cancellation of an exceptional exchange against an ordinary identity is implicit. This is the complete local coefficient comparison needed below.

Equivalently, the exceptional exchange χu\chi_u acts by ϵ\epsilon after identifying its pulled-back coefficient through LFT19. This assertion is only about coefficients pulled from E1E_1. It does not replace χr(T1F)\chi_r(T_1F), or χr\chi_r at any arbitrary object, by a scalar.

SH02-FGC-TRANSPORT. Retain the exceptional exchange until it reaches the coefficient

Let χr:A2r!→r!A1\chi_r:A_2r^!\to r^!A_1 be the usual exceptional exchange. Write the full antipode-canceled raw comparison as

Kh:r!(U1F⊗W1)→r!I1−1r!A1ℛ1F→χr(ℛ1F)−1A2r!ℛ1F→A2ΛhA2ℛ2Rh*F→I2U2Rh*F⊗W2.(FGC18) \begin{aligned} K_h: r^!(U_1F\otimes W_1) &\xrightarrow{r^!I_1^{-1}}r^!A_1\mathcal R_1F\\ &\xrightarrow{\chi_r(\mathcal R_1F)^{-1}} A_2r^!\mathcal R_1F \xrightarrow{A_2\Lambda_h}A_2\mathcal R_2Rh_*F\\ &\xrightarrow{I_2}U_2Rh_*F\otimes W_2. \end{aligned} \qquad\text{(FGC18)}

In FGC18 it is the inverse of χr\chi_r, as displayed, that is used.

Expand Λh\Lambda_h by FGC9. Naturality and pasting of exceptional/ordinary base change move the displayed χr−1\chi_r^{-1} through the first arrow of FGC9 to χu−1\chi_u^{-1} on its coefficient. Naturality of the exceptional cut-mate moves it through RΓNR\Gamma_N, while ordinary changes ziz_i,z exchange that cut with C. At the transitivity arrow the resulting coefficient route is exactly the left side of FGC17: its initial ordinary transport is u!κ1−1u^!\kappa_1^{-1}, and its final one is κs\kappa_s. Thus this portion of the expanded chain is ϵ\epsilon times the direct C-chain transitivity. This step retains χr\chi_r until its mate-pasting image χu\chi_u has been reached; it never treats χr\chi_r as scalar on an arbitrary coefficient.

There is no additional scalar at the last FGC10 interchange. Its canonical exceptional-coordinate square intertwines χs\chi_s and χp2\chi_{p_2}. Both bundle projections have rank n2n_2, so replacing those two exceptional coefficient actions by κs\kappa_s and κ2\kappa_2 cancels the same factor (−1)n2(-1)^{n_2} on the two routes. Consequently FGC10 respects their ordinary transports. The ordinary cut-Hom exchange and q-image composition also respect ordinary coordinate change. They contain no new orientation permutation.

It follows that KhK_h is ϵ\epsilon times the chain obtained from FGC9 by replacing N with C and using the direct transitivity map τ\tau. This is an identity of the full natural maps on arbitrary F, using only counit, projection-formula, cut-mate, and Cartesian-pasting identities.

SH02-FGC-EXTRACTION. Extract the right line by tensor equivalence

Write Z=T2Rh*FZ=T_2Rh_*F and X=r!T1FX=r^!T_1F. FF3a specifies

d:L⊗W1⟶W2.(FGC19) d:L\otimes W_1\longrightarrow W_2. \qquad\text{(FGC19)}

By LFT19, the direct C-chain of SH02-FGC-TRANSPORT, after extracting the input W1W_1 on the right, is exactly (1Z⊗d)(Gh⊗1W1)(1_Z\otimes d)(G_h\otimes1_{W_1}). Indeed LFT19 defines its coefficient identification by u!p1!F=s!Fu^!p_1^!F=s^!F and right cancellation of W1W_1; this is the same τ\tau and same FF3a d, not a separate orientation identification. Both coefficient and line orders are retained.

Use FGC13 at the two endpoints of FGC18. The original antipode-canceled FF11 map, denoted ℓ̃h\widetilde\ell_h, therefore satisfies

ℓ̃h=ϵ(1Z⊗d)(Gh⊗1W1):X⊗W1⟶Z⊗W2.(FGC20) \widetilde\ell_h =\epsilon(1_Z\otimes d)(G_h\otimes1_{W_1}): X\otimes W_1\longrightarrow Z\otimes W_2. \qquad\text{(FGC20)}

For clarity the coherent extraction defining original L3 can be written without an unspecified forward evaluation. Put D1=Rℋom(W1,k)D_1=R\mathcal Hom(W_1,k), let u1:k→W1⊗D1u_1:k\to W_1\otimes D_1 be coevaluation, and define

j:L⟶W2⊗D1,j=(d⊗1D1)(1L⊗u1).(FGC21) j:L\longrightarrow W_2\otimes D_1, \qquad j=(d\otimes1_{D_1})(1_L\otimes u_1). \qquad\text{(FGC21)}

This is exactly the FF3a identification, characterized by tensoring right by W1W_1 and evaluating D1⊗W1D_1\otimes W_1. Then

ℓh=(1Z⊗j−1)(ℓ̃h⊗1D1)(1X⊗u1).(FGC22) \ell_h=(1_Z\otimes j^{-1}) (\widetilde\ell_h\otimes1_{D_1})(1_X\otimes u_1). \qquad\text{(FGC22)}

Substitute FGC20. Naturality of tensoring moves GhG_h through the insertion, and the remaining map on L is j−1(d⊗1D1)(1L⊗u1)=1Lj^{-1}(d\otimes1_{D_1})(1_L\otimes u_1)=1_L. Thus FGC22 is ϵGh\epsilon G_h, proving FGC2 for this explicitly fixed coherent initial FF11 completion. No symmetry is added in this step. The output line in the final FTC13 cancellation has not yet been canceled.

Finally apply FGC4 to that final line. The two factors ϵ\epsilon multiply to one, and FGC3 gives ℓ‾hb=G¯h\bar\ell_h^{\,b}=\overline G_h. The direct support square LFT21 therefore becomes the square with this precisely specified original L3 and final braided evaluation. Initial FF11 coevaluation and final FTC13 braided evaluation occupy different places and are not interchanged.

SH02-FGC-SCOPE. Why the proof includes maps whose rank jumps

For an identity bundle map, ϵ=1\epsilon=1 and d is the identity-unit transitivity. The initial coherent FF11 extraction gives the identity; the final relative line is the tensor unit. For a zero inclusion the formula gives the parity of its transpose projection; Problem 2 checks the complete input and final contraction on every coefficient object. The proof above uses the mixed kernel directly and does not assume a separate projection calculation or a partial Fourier factorization.

This argument never assumes that a sheaf conic for joint scaling is conic in one direct-sum factor. In particular it does not reduce a general projection E1E_1 direct-sum E2E_2 -> E2E_2 by a fiberwise conic contraction. Rank jumps are handled by the mixed diagram and the two full vector bundle projections, which exist without a kernel bundle.

SH02-FGC-SUPPORT. The completed support square

Theorem. Keep the primitive map Ah:r−1T1→T2Rh!A_h:r^{-1}T_1\to T_2Rh_! of FF6, the right-ordered map θ‾r\bar\theta_r of LFT-L2, the coherent initial extraction FGC22 defining ℓh\ell_h, and the final braided contraction ℓ‾hb\bar\ell_h^{\,b} of FGC3. Then on every conic D+D^+ coefficient object in SH02-FGC-CONVENTIONS, ℓ‾hb∘θ‾r=T2(νh)∘Ah:r−1T1⟶T2Rh*.(FGC23) \bar\ell_h^{\,b}\circ\bar\theta_r =T_2(\nu_h)\circ A_h: r^{-1}T_1\longrightarrow T_2Rh_*. \qquad\text{(FGC23)}

Proof. FGC2 is an equality of the actual uncontracted natural maps, proved by FGC6–FGC22. The parity identity FGC4 gives ℓ‾hb=ϵ2G¯h=G¯h.(FGC24) \bar\ell_h^{\,b} =\epsilon^2\overline G_h =\overline G_h. \qquad\text{(FGC24)} LFT21 identifies G¯hθ‾r\overline G_h\bar\theta_r with the right side of FGC23. All three input and endpoint conventions are preserved in that substitution. This proves the equality. ▫\square

This proves the linear support equation FTC13 with its chosen maps. Braided evaluation and inverse coevaluation are different forward-ordered contractions. With the same initial extraction and input but inverse coevaluation at the final original endpoint, the left side is ϵ\epsilon times the right side. For a zero inclusion into an odd-rank bundle with integral coefficients it can differ from it.

SH02-FGC-PROBLEMS. Three tests of the completed convention

Problem 1. For h=id⁡Eh=\operatorname{id}_E, verify both the initial extraction and the final support endpoint when EE has odd rank.

Solution. Here n1=n2n_1=n_2, so ϵ=1\epsilon=1 and L=kL=k. The FF11 map is the identity on TEF⊗WET_EF\otimes W_E. The map jj of FGC21 is coevaluation for WEW_E, and FGC22 cancels that very insertion by j−1j^{-1}. Hence ℓh=1\ell_h=1. The final line is the tensor unit, so braided evaluation and inverse coevaluation agree there. Thus FGC23 is the identity square. The odd rank of EE alone introduces no sign: the relevant parity at the final endpoint is the relative rank.

Problem 2. For the zero inclusion i:B→E*i:B\to E^*, with EE of rank nn, check FGC23 on an arbitrary K∈D+(B;k)K\in D^+(B;k).

Solution. The transpose is the projection π:E→B\pi:E\to B. The primitive map identifies the Fourier transform of Ri*KRi_*K with π−1K\pi^{-1}K; both cuts contain its zero-section support. Since ii is proper, the right side of FGC23 is identity. The direct kernel comparison is the positive projection orientation identification on π−1K⊗WE\pi^{-1}K\otimes W_E. By FGC2, the uncontracted original map is (−1)n(-1)^n times this map. The input θ‾π\bar\theta_\pi inserts coev⁡WE\operatorname{coev}_{W_E} on the right: the coefficient symmetry in the definition of θπ\theta_\pi cancels the coefficient symmetry in LFT-L2. The final braid contributes another (−1)n(-1)^n. Their product is one. The calculation works on arbitrary complexes because those two coefficient symmetries are inverse as natural transformations; it uses no finite-stalk assumption.

Problem 3. Let B=ℝB=\mathbb R, E1=B×ℝ2E_1=B\times\mathbb R^2, E2=B×ℝE_2=B\times\mathbb R, and hb(x,y)=bxh_b(x,y)=bx. Locate the sign in the proof at b=0b=0.

Solution. The kernel dimension jumps at zero, but p1p_1 and ss remain vector-bundle projections of ranks two and one. Their exceptional antipode exchanges have signs +1+1 and −1-1. The typed transitivity square FGC15 therefore gives ϵ=−1\epsilon=-1 throughout BB. The cut and mate construction remains defined at zero, so FGC2 holds without selecting a kernel bundle. The final braided contraction again cancels that uniform factor.

SH02-FGC-STATUS. Keep the support and trace proofs distinct

The proved results are the full-map identity FGC2 and the support square FGC23 with the separately specified initial extraction, trace input and final braided contraction. Their proof includes arbitrary locally compact Hausdorff bases, arbitrary conic bounded-below coefficients over the stated ring, nonorientable bundles and rank jumps. The downstream microlocal endpoint is proved in Following the microlocal comparison maps, SH02-MEP-SUPPORT and SH02-MEP-MATE-UNTWIST. The operation imports remain those explicitly declared in SH02-FF-DOMAINS; this calculation does not replace their foundational proofs.

The trace equation FTC14 and its exact reformulation LFT41 are proved separately in The complete transpose endpoint, SH02-FTE-TRACE. That proof uses the full L3 comparison here and then compares the additional units, counits and orientation-line maps. The parity identity alone would not prove it. The distinct prescribed second-adjunction normalization comparisons FDN18 and FDN19 are proved in The geometric normalization of Fourier adjunctions, SH02-NDF-SOURCE-MAPS, by the actual full-category defect calculation and the unique normalized opposite comparison. That theorem is separate from the support and trace proofs here.

Published source and proof mechanism. Kashiwara–Schapira, Microlocal Study of Sheaves, Astérisque 128 (1985), printed pp. 39–41 (PDF pp. 42–44), gives the two halfspace presentations in Proposition 2.1.1 and Definition 2.1.2, inverse equivalences in Theorem 2.1.3(i), and the two linear functorialities in Proposition 2.1.5. Its §2.1 expressly recalls these results without proofs. The exceptional inverse image in Proposition 2.1.5(ii) is essential: it is not an ordinary inverse-image formula with the orientation line discarded. The source allows a locally compact base and bounded-below conic complexes, but its half-line formulation is compared with the parameter-conic category through the course’s conic-descent proof, not by silently identifying two definitions.

The construction here supplies the map-level step not printed in that statement. FGC9 is obtained by taking the mate of the common mixed-cut proper-image map; FGC10 is the mate of proper-support base change, rather than an arbitrary ordinary-image base-change isomorphism. FGC15 then compares the two exceptional antipode transports by transitivity. Their projection-fibre degrees give the relative-rank sign in FGC17–FGC20 even when the linear map has rank jumps. Finally FGC21–FGC22 undo the specified initial insertion, and FGC4 identifies the distinct final contractions. This sequence proves FGC23 for the declared maps without deriving a sign from an isomorphism of endpoint objects.

For the operation primitives, Pierre Schapira, An Introduction to Sheaves on Grothendieck Topologies, 1 August 2026 version, Theorem 4.5.3 and equation (4.5.4), p. 93, give proper-support base change and its compact-support fibre formula. Theorem 4.6.1 and Corollary 4.6.2, pp. 94–95, provide dimension-bounded exceptional adjunction and transitivity; Proposition 5.1.9, pp. 107–108, gives the submersion orientation formula by a local trace calculation. These supply the relevant mechanisms, not the ordered sign comparison above. The two-bounded-below projection formula still uses the explicit truncation argument SH02-FF-BOUNDS: the printed projection formula, Theorem 4.4.7, p. 91, has boundedness hypotheses that cannot simply be dropped. The source terminology and mathematics are credited here; the independently written course argument is under CC0, and the human works retain their own terms.