The Bryant-Ferry-Mio-Weinberger surgery exact sequence for compact homology manifolds of dimension is used to obtain transversality, splitting and bordism results for homology manifolds, generalizing previous work of Johnston. First, we establish homology manifold transversality for submanifolds of dimension : if is a map from an -dimensional homology manifold to a space , and is a subspace with a topological -block bundle neighborhood, and , then is homology manifold -cobordant to a map which is transverse to , with an -dimensional homology submanifold. Second, we obtain a codimension splitting obstruction in the Wall -group for a simple homotopy equivalence from an -dimensional homology manifold to an -dimensional Poincaré space with a codimension Poincaré subspace with a topological normal bundle, such that if (and for only if) splits at up to homology manifold -cobordism. Third, we obtain the multiplicative structure of the homology manifold bordism groups . |