Chiral Poincaré duality

Poincaré Duality Algebras Mod Two

Chiral anomalies and Poincaré invariance ∗

I consider theories of Dirac fermions with different regularizations, leading to different chiral anomalies. I have investigated the Poincaré invariance properties of these theories. I find that both Lorentz and translational invariance are anomalously violated in general, but that they are respected in a theory that is regularized to give a Wess-Zumino consistent anomaly (the Bardeen anomaly)....

Poincaré duality in dimension 3 CT

The paper gives a review of progress towards extending the Thurston programme to the Poincaré duality case. In the first section, we fix notation and terminology for Poincaré complexes X (with fundamental group G) and pairs, and discuss finiteness conditions. For the case where there is no boundary, π2 is non-zero if and only if G has at least 2 ends: here one would expect X to split as a conne...

Poincaré Duality and Periodicity, Ii. James Periodicity

Let K be a connected finite complex. This paper studies the problem of whether one can attach a cell to some iterated suspension ΣK so that the resulting space satisfies Poincaré duality. When this is possible, we say that ΣK is a spine. We introduce the notion of quadratic self duality and show that if K is quadratically self dual, then ΣK is a spine whenever j is a suitable power of two. The ...

Poincaré Duality and Commutative Differential Graded Algebras

We prove that every commutative differential graded algebra whose cohomology is a simply-connected Poincaré duality algebra is quasi-isomorphic to one whose underlying algebra is simply-connected and satisfies Poincaré du-ality in the same dimension. This has application in particular to the study of CDGA models of configuration spaces on a closed manifold.