Poincaré duality, Hilbert complexes and geometric applications

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2014.09.002MaRDI QIDQ462285zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Publication date 20 October 2014

Published in Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1209.3528

intersection cohomology Hodge theorem L2-cohomology stratified pseudomanifold Poincaré duality

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Hodge theory in global analysis (58A14) Poincaré duality spaces (57P10) Elliptic cohomology (55N34)

Abstract: Let

(M, g)

an open and oriented riemannian manifold. The aim of this paper is to study some properties of the two following sequences of

L^{2}

cohomology groups:

H_{2, m i g h t a r r o w M}^{i} (M, g)

defined as the image

i m (H_{2, m i n}^{i} (M, g) i g h t a r r o w H_{2, m a x}^{i} (M, g))

and

defined as

. We show, under certain hypothesis, that the first sequence is the cohomology of a suitable Hilbert complex which contains the minimal one and is contained in the maximal one. We also show that when the second sequence is finite dimensional then Poincar'e duality holds for it and that, in the same assumptions, when

d i m (M) e q u i v 0 m o d 4

we can use it to define a

L^{2}

signature on

M

. Moreover we show several applications to the intersection cohomology of compact smoothly stratified pseudomanifolds and we get some results about the Friedrichs extension

D e l t a_{i}^{m} a t h c a l F

of

D e l t a_{i}

.

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