Homological properties of stratified spaces
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Homological properties of stratified spaces
zbMATH Open document ID: 0792.57009
published in: Illinois Journal of Mathematics
publication date: 1994-05-16T00:00:00Z
review text: This paper is about a de Rham theorem in intersection cohomology: given a stratified space \(A\), the author exhibits a complex of differential forms on \(A - \Sigma\) (nonsingular part of \(A\)) whose cohomology is the intersection cohomology of \(A\). The approach followed here has two special features: 1. A more general notion of perversity (introduced by \textit{R. MacPherson} in ``Intersection cohomology and perverse sheaves'', Colloquium Lectures, Annual Meeting of the Am. Math. Soc., San Francisco, June 1991. In this context, the axiomatic presentation of the intersection cohomology does not hold. So, the author gives a direct proof of the de Rham theorem. 2. A more general notion of intersection differential form. The original one uses a neighborhood of \(\Sigma\) in order to describe the allowability condition of a differential form \(\omega\) on \(A - \Sigma\). The author replaces this germ condition in such a way that the allowability of \(\omega\) is seen directly on \(\Sigma\) (by means of a blow up \(\pi: \widetilde{A} \to A\)). The work ends by showing how to express the Poincaré duality in terms of the wedge product.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 57N80
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 57R19
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 55N33
zbMATH DE Number: 561211
zbMATH Keywords: de Rham theorem in intersection cohomology
zbMATH Keywords: stratified space
zbMATH Keywords: perversity
zbMATH Keywords: intersection differential form
zbMATH Keywords: allowability condition of a differential form
zbMATH Keywords: Poincaré duality
author: Martintxo Saralegi-Aranguren
reviewed by: Martintxo Saralegi-Aranguren
MaRDI profile type: Publication
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 561211