Vanishing Cycles for Zariski-Constructible Sheaves on Rigid Analytic Varieties

We develop a theory of nearby and vanishing cycles in the context of finite-coefficient Zariski-constructible sheaves over a non-archimedean field which is non-trivially valued, complete, algebraically closed, and of mixed characteristic or equal characteristic zero. Apart from basic properties, we show that they preserve Zariski-constructibility, have a Milnor fibre interpretation, satisfy Beilinson’s gluing construction, are perverse t-exact, and commute with Verdier duality.