paper

Cup and cap products in intersection (co)homology

arXiv:1106.4799

Abstract

We construct cup and cap products in intersection (co)homology with field coefficients. The existence of the cap product allows us to give a new proof of Poincare duality in intersection (co)homology which is similar in spirit to the usual proof for ordinary (co)homology of manifolds.

arXiv comment49 pages; some revisions; to appear in Advances in Mathematics