English

Hodge decompositions and Poincare duality models

Algebraic Topology 2025-12-25 v4

Abstract

We extend a CDGA VV with a perfect pairing of degree nn on cohomology to a CDGA V^\hat V with a pairing of degree nn on chain level such that V^\hat V admits a Hodge decomposition and retracts onto VV preserving the pairing on cohomology; here we suppose that VV is either 1-connected, or that VV is connected, of finite type, and nn is odd. We show that a Hodge decomposition of V^\hat V induces a differential Poincar\'e duality model of VV in a natural way. Assuming that H(V)H(V) is 1-connected, we apply our extension to a Sullivan model of VV in the proof of the existence and "uniqueness" of a 1-connected differential Poincar\'e duality model of VV by Lambrechts & Stanley; we eliminate their extra assumptions in the uniqueness statement, including H2(V)=0H^2(V)=0 if nn is odd.

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@article{arxiv.2004.07362,
  title  = {Hodge decompositions and Poincare duality models},
  author = {Pavel Hajek},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.07362},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

Corrected and streamlined version. 30p

R2 v1 2026-06-23T14:53:01.447Z