Standard reference:
$% I. Bonnard and F. Pieroni, Constructible functions on 2-dimensional analytic manifolds, Rev. Mat. Complut. 17 (2004), 381394.%$

Constructible Functions on 2-Dimensional Analytic Manifolds

Isabelle BONNARD and Federica PIERONI
Lycée Poincaré
2 rue de la Visitation BP 4202
54042 Nancy Cedex France
Dipartimento di Matematica

Via Filippo Buonarroti 2
56127 Pisa Italy

Received: November 17, 2003
Accepted: February 19, 2004
ABSTRACT

We present a characterization of sums of signs of global analytic functions on a real analytic manifold M  of dimension two. Unlike the algebraic case, obstructions at infinity are not relevant: a function is a sum of signs on M  if and only if this is true on each compact subset of M  . This characterization gives a necessary and sufficient condition for an analytically constructible function, i.e. a linear combination with integer coefficients of Euler characteristic of fibers of proper analytic morphisms, to be such a sum of signs.

Key words: global semianalytic sets, constructible functions.
2000 Mathematics Subject Classification:
14P15.