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Take $X$ to be a smooth complex projective algebraic variety. The Riemann-Hilbert correspondence gives an equivalence of categories between the category of perverse sheaves on $X$ and the category of holonomic D-modules on $X$.

Now Lurie, in the lecture "Notes on Crystals and Algebraic D-Modules" (link), demonstrates that in the above setting the category of quasicoherent D-modules is equivalent to the category of crystals of quasicoherent sheaves, or equivalently quasicoherent sheaves on the crystalline site. So the obvious inclusion of the D-module categories will give us perverse sheaves as a subcategory of crystalline sheaves.

Can I in general think of perverse sheaves as a subcategory of sheaves on the crystalline site? None of the literature I have seen on perverse sheaves takes this point of view, so I am somewhat suspicious of it; is it written up anywhere?

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  • $\begingroup$ There should be an equivalence of derived categories that do not respect the underlying abelian categories. I guess it is possible to develop the theory in a purely algebraic fashion, but as far as I know this is not written up anywhere. $\endgroup$
    – Leo Alonso
    Commented Jun 29, 2016 at 11:11
  • $\begingroup$ I think the version of RH you're reffering to is the equivalence (in alg. closed char 0) between the abelian category of holonomic D modules with regular singularities and perverse sheaves. $\endgroup$ Commented Mar 20, 2017 at 12:36

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