Definition
Further information: Intersection theoryThe intersection form
is given by
When the 4-manifold is also smooth, then in de Rham cohomology, if a and b are represented by 2-forms α and β, then the intersection form can be expressed by the integral
where is the wedge product, see exterior algebra.
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