Intersection Cohomology

by Armand Borel

Book Overview

This book 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). While some familiarity with algebraic topology and sheaf theory...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817647643
• ISBN13: 9780817647643
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Birkhauser
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"