Perverse sheaf
The mathematical term perverse sheaves refers to the objects of certain abelian categories associated to topological spaces, which may be a real or complex manifold, or more general topologically stratified spaces, possibly singular. The concept was introduced in the work of Joseph Bernstein, Alexander Beilinson, and Pierre Deligne and Ofer Gabber (1982) as a consequence of the Riemann-Hilbert correspondence, which establishes a connection between the derived category of regular holonomic D-modules and the derived category of constructible sheaves.