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Cocycles on tropical varieties via piecewise polynomials

Algebraic Geometry 2011-11-23 v2

Abstract

We use piecewise polynomials to define tropical cocycles generalising the well-known notion of tropical Cartier divisors to higher codimensions. Groups of cocycles are tropical analogues of Chow cohomology groups. We also introduce an intersection product of cocycles with tropical cycles - the counterpart of the classical cap product - and prove that this gives rise to a Poincar\'e duality in some cases.

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@article{arxiv.1102.4783,
  title  = {Cocycles on tropical varieties via piecewise polynomials},
  author = {Georges Francois},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1102.4783},
  year   = {2011}
}

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15 pages, 3 figures, some more details added

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