On the cohomology classes of planar polygon spaces
Algebraic Topology
2016-04-15 v1
Abstract
We obtain an explicit formula for the Poincare duality isomorphism H^{n-3}(Mbar(ell)) to Z/2 for the space of isometry classes of n-gons with specified side lengths, if ell is monogenic in the sense of Hausmann-Rodriguez. This has potential application to topological complexity.
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@article{arxiv.1604.04188,
title = {On the cohomology classes of planar polygon spaces},
author = {Donald M. Davis},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1604.04188},
year = {2016}
}
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6 pages