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5 - Mayer–Vietoris Arguments and Further Properties of Intersection Homology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2020

Greg Friedman
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Texas Christian University
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We develop “Mayer–Vietoris arguments” that can be used to show the equivalence of two functors on a manifold or stratified space. We apply such arguments to prove an intersection homology version of the Künneth theorem when one factor is a manifold; this includes a detailed construction of the cross product for intersection homology. We also treat intersection homology with coefficients and discuss universal coefficient theorems and their obstructions, including a local torsion-free condition. We show that PL and singular intersection homology are isomorphic on PL stratified spaces, and we prove that intersection homology is stratification-independent when using certain perversities, including the original ones of Goresky and MacPherson. The chapter closes with a proof that the intersection homology of compact pseudomanifolds is finitely generated.

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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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