Stiefel-Whitney classes and the conormal cycle of a singular variety

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Abstract: A geometric construction of Sullivan's Stiefel-Whitney homology classes of a real analytic variety X is given by means of the conormal cycle of an embedding of X in a smooth variety. We prove that the Stiefel-Whitney classes define additive natural transformations from certain constructible functions to homology. We also show that, for a complex analytic variety, these classes are the mod 2 reductions of the Chern-MacPherson classes.



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