Homology and cohomology of hypersurfaces with quadratic singular points in generic position
There is a large research program focused on comparison between algebraic and topological categories, whose origins go back to 1952 and the celebrated work of J. Nash on real algebraic manifolds. The present paper is a contribution to this program. It investigates the homology and cohomology classes represented by real algebraic sets. In particular, such classes are studied on algebraic models of smooth manifolds.
Homology with values in a connection with possibly irregular singular points on an algebraic curve is defined, generalizing homology with values in the underlying local system for a connection with regular singular points. Integration defines a perfect pairing between de Rham cohomology with values in the connection and homology with values in the dual connection.