Abstract
The primary purpose of this paper concerns the relation of (compact) generalized manifolds to finite Poincaré duality complexes (PD complexes). The problem is that an arbitrary generalized manifold X is always an ENR space, but it is not necessarily a complex. Moreover, finite PD complexes require the Poincaré duality with coefficients in the group ring Λ (Λ-complexes). Standard homology theory implies that X is a Z-PD complex. Therefore by Browder's theorem, X has a Spivak normal fibration which in turn, determines a Thom class of the pair (N,∂N) of a mapping cylinder neighborhood of X in some Euclidean space. Then X satisfies the Λ-Poincaré duality if this class induces an isomorphism with Λ-coefficients. Unfortunately, the proof of Browder's theorem gives only isomorphisms with Z-coefficients. It is also not very helpful that X is homotopy equivalent to a finite complex K, because K is not automatically a Λ-PD complex. Therefore it is convenient to introduce Λ-PD structures. To prove their existence on X, we use the construction of 2-patch spaces and some fundamental results of Bryant, Ferry, Mio, and Weinberger. Since the class of all Λ-PD complexes does not contain all generalized manifolds, we appropriately enlarge this class and then describe (i.e. recognize) generalized manifolds within this enlarged class in terms of the Gromov–Hausdorff metric.
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