Poincaré duality and unimodularity
Yuri G. Zarhin
Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA
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Abstract
It is well known that the cup-product pairing on the complementary integral cohomology groups (modulo torsion) of a compact oriented manifold is unimodular. We prove a similar result for the -adic cohomology groups of smooth algebraic varieties.