Intersection Cohomology

Download or read book Intersection Cohomology written by Armand Borel and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-05-21 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a publication in Swiss Seminars, a subseries of Progress in Mathematics. It is an expanded version of the notes from a seminar on intersection cohomology theory, which met at the University of Bern, Switzerland, in the spring of 1983. This volume supplies an introduction to the piecewise linear and sheaf-theoretic versions of that theory as developed by M. Goresky and R. MacPherson in Topology 19 (1980), and in Inventiones Mathematicae 72 (1983). Some familiarity with algebraic topology and sheaf theory is assumed.