A cup product pairing and time-duality for discrete dynamical systems (Q1292653)

In the paper the cup product pairing for an isolating block of a homeomorphism of an orientable manifold is defined. Roughly speaking the pairing is obtained by means of the cup product of the cohomology of the isolating block relative to the exit sets in positive and negative time. It is shown that the cup product pairing is nondegenerate. As a consequence the time duality theorem for the discrete Conley index is obtained with an explicit formula for the duality isomorphism.