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Record Nr.

UNINA9910483896403321

Autore

Banagl Markus

Titolo

Intersection spaces, spatial homology truncation, and string theory / / Markus Banagl

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Springer, 2010

ISBN

1-280-39176-6

9786613569684

3-642-12589-1

Edizione

[1st ed. 2010.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XVI, 224 p.)

Collana

Lecture notes in mathematics, , 0075-8434 ; ; 1997

Classificazione

55N3357P1014J1781T3055P3055S3614J3214J33

Disciplina

514.23

Soggetti

Intersection homology theory

String models

Duality theory (Mathematics)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-213) and index.

Sommario/riassunto

Intersection cohomology assigns groups which satisfy a generalized form of Poincaré duality over the rationals to a stratified singular space. The present monograph introduces a method that assigns to certain classes of stratified spaces cell complexes, called intersection spaces, whose ordinary rational homology satisfies generalized Poincaré duality. The cornerstone of the method is a process of spatial homology truncation, whose functoriality properties are analyzed in detail. The material on truncation is autonomous and may be of independent interest to homotopy theorists. The cohomology of intersection spaces is not isomorphic to intersection cohomology and possesses algebraic features such as perversity-internal cup-products and cohomology operations that are not generally available for intersection cohomology. A mirror-symmetric interpretation, as well as applications to string theory concerning massless D-branes arising in type IIB theory during a Calabi-Yau conifold transition, are discussed.