nLab Poincaré complex

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Duality

Integration theory

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Idea

A special kind of Poincaré duality space: a CW-complex which satisfies Poincaré duality and in this respect thus behaves like a closed manifold. Also called a homology manifold, therefore.

References

  • C. T. C. Wall, Poincaré complexes I, Annals of Mathematics, Second Series, Volume 86 (1967) pdf

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  • Andrew Ranicki, 45 slides on chain duality, September 1996 (pdf)

With an eye towards generalization in spectral geometry (spectral triples):

  • Alain Connes, page 10 of Noncommutative geometry and reality, J. Math. Phys. 36 (11), 1995 (pdf)

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