Intersection homology operations

DOI10.1007/BF02566362MaRDI QIDQ799976zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors M. Goresky

Publication date 1984

Published in Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://eudml.org/doc/139987

zbMATH Keywords

intersection homology Euler characteristicintersection homology Whitney classintersection homology Wu classessheaf-theoretic construction of Steenrod squares in (mod 2) intersection (co-)homologyWitt space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sheaf cohomology in algebraic topology (55N30) Products and intersections in homology and cohomology (55N45) Primary cohomology operations in algebraic topology (55S05) Steenrod algebra (55S10)

Review text

This paper gives a sheaf-theoretic construction of Steenrod squares in (mod 2) intersection (co-)homology, which double the perversity. If X is a (mod 2) Witt space, then by Poincaré duality the Steenrod squares give rise to intersection homology Wu classes, \(IV_*(X)\in IH_*^{\bar m}(X)\) in the middle intersection homology groups. The total square of this class is an intersection homology Whitney class. \(IW_*(X)=S_ qIV_*(X)\in H_*(X)\) whose associated genus, \(IW_ 0(X)\) is the (mod 2)-intersection homology Euler characteristic. A combinatorial formula for these characteristic classes is given.

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