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A notion of stratified space is supposed to be a notion of topological space that is not necessarily a manifold, but which is filtered into “strata” that are.
Examples include polyhedra, algebraic varieties, orbit spaces of many group actions on manifolds and mapping cylinders of maps between manifolds.
There are various ways in the literature to make this precise, including:
Maybe one can assign a fundamental category to a stratified space. This has been studied for poset-stratified spaces – see there under “exit path -category” for more.
A notion of purely topologically stratified sets was introduced in
Notions of smoothly stratified spaces were considered by
H. Whitney, Local properties of analytic varieties, Differentiable and combinatorial topology (S. Cairns, ed.), Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, 1965, pp. 205–244. MR 32:5924
R. Thom, Ensembles et morphismes stratifiés, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 75 (1969), 240–282. MR 39:970
J. Mather, Notes on topological stability, Harvard Univ., Cambridge, (1970)
Locally conelike stratified spaces have been considered in
These are all special cases of (Quinn’s definition).
Discussion of differential operators on stratified spaces is in
R. B. Melrose, Pseudodifferential operators, corners and singular limits, Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians, Vol. I, II (Kyoto, 1990), 217–234, Math. Soc.
Pierre Albin, Eric Leichtnam, Rafe Mazzeo, Paolo Piazza, The signature package on Witt spaces, I. Index classes (arXiv:0906.1568v2)
See also
Discussion of the fundamental category of a (Whitney‑)stratified space is in
Jonathan Woolf, Transversal homotopy theory (arXiv:0910.3322)
M. Banagl, Topological invariants of stratified spaces, Springer Monographs in Math. 2000.
A homotopy hypothesis for stratified spaces is discussed in
whilst an earlier paper on exit paths is
145 (2009), 1504–1532
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