Let
be a field of
characteristic
endowed
with a complex embedding
.
We complete the construction of the six-functor formalism on perverse Nori motives over quasiprojective
-varieties,
initiated by Ivorra–Morel. Our main contribution is the construction of a closed monoidal
structure on the derived categories of perverse Nori motives, compatibly with the analogous
structure on the underlying constructible derived categories. This is based on an alternative
presentation of perverse Nori motives, related to the conjectural motivic perverse
-structure
on Voevodsky motivic sheaves. Consequently, we obtain well-behaved Tannakian
categories of motivic local systems over smooth, geometrically connected
-varieties. Exploiting
the relation with Voevodsky motivic sheaves in its full strength, we are able to define Chern classes in the
setting of perverse Nori motives, which leads to a motivic version of the relative hard Lefschetz theorem.