Witt Spaces: A Geometric Cycle Theory for KO-Homology at Odd Primes

DOI10.2307/2374334zbMath0547.57019OpenAlexW1971910696MaRDI QIDQ3338962

Paul H. Siegel

Publication date: 1983

Published in: American Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/91309

zbMATH Keywords

Witt spacesKO homology at odd primeslocal intersection homologyP.L.cycles with signaturestratified piecewise-linear pseudomanifoldsWitt group of symmetric bilinear forms over the rationals

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20) (mathrm{O})- and (mathrm{SO})-cobordism (57R75) Bordism and cobordism theories and formal group laws in algebraic topology (55N22) Topological (K)-theory (55N15) Other homology theories in algebraic topology (55N35) General binary quadratic forms (11E16) Cobordism and concordance in PL-topology (57Q60) Stratifications in topological manifolds (57N80)

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