From the reviews: This book is devoted to the study of sheaves by microlocal methods..(it) may serve as a reference source as well as a textbook on this new subject. Houzel's historical overview of the development of sheaf theory will identify important landmarks for students and will be a pleasure to read for specialists. Math. Reviews 92a (1992). The book is clearly and precisely written, and contains many interesting ideas: it describes a whole, largely new branch of mathematics.(...)The book can be strongly recommended to a younger mathematician enthusiastic to assimilate a new range of techniques allowing flexible application to a wide variety of problems. Bull. L.M.S. (1992)
Sheaf Theory is a highly "modern" and active field of mathematics at the intersection of algebraic topology, algebraic geometry and partial differential equations. In this Grundlehren volume the authors achieve a comprehensive and self-contained treatment of Sheaf Theory from the basis up, with emphasis on the microlocal point of view.

Sheaf Theory is a highly "modern" and active field of mathematics at the intersection of algebraic topology, algebraic geometry and partial differential equations. In this Grundlehren volume the authors achieve a comprehensive and self-contained treatment of Sheaf Theory from the basis up, with emphasis on the microlocal point of view.

Autorentext

Masaki Kashiwara Professor at the Rims, Kyoto University Plenary speaker ICM 1978 Invited speaker ICM 1990 http://www.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~kenkyubu/kashiwara/ Pierre Schapira, Professor at University Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI) Invited speaker ICM 1990 http://www.math.jussieu.fr/~schapira/

Inhalt
A Short History: Les débuts de la théorie des faisceaux.- I. Homological algebra.- II. Sheaves.- III. Poincaré-Verdier duality and Fourier-Sato transformation.- IV. Specialization and microlocalization.- V. Micro-support of sheaves.- VI. Micro-support and microlocalization.- VII. Contact transformations and pure sheaves.- VIII. Constructible sheaves.- IX. Characteristic cycles.- X. Perverse sheaves.- XI. Applications to O-modules and D-modules.- Appendix: Symplectic geometry.- Summary.- A.1. Symplectic vector spaces.- A.2. Homogeneous symplectic manifolds.- A.3. Inertia index.- Exercises to the Appendix.- Notes.- List of notations and conventions.