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Jun 12, 2013 at 3:10 history edited Tom Church CC BY-SA 3.0
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Jun 11, 2013 at 21:30 comment added Andy Putman @David Speyer : I believe that Bredon's book on algebraic topology does it too. Neither Hatcher nor May discuss smooth manifolds at all, so they really can't discuss this interpretation of cup products.
Jun 11, 2013 at 14:23 comment added Mark Grant @Tom Church: I believe your description of $[\Gamma_f]$ follows from my answer mathoverflow.net/questions/23011/…
Jun 11, 2013 at 14:22 comment added Mark Grant @David Speyer: "Lecture Notes in Algebraic Topology" by Davis and Kirk spells out the gory details in the case of complementary dimension (the general case is left as an exercise). It's in their section on intersection theory.
Jun 11, 2013 at 13:02 comment added David E Speyer Re your aside: If you know that Poincare duality turns cup product into intersection of submanifolds! This fact seems to be a bit hard to find spelled out in current algebraic topology textbooks; I couldn't find it in Hatcher or May on a quick look.
Jun 10, 2013 at 21:29 history answered Tom Church CC BY-SA 3.0