An Orlik-Raymond type classification of simply connected 6-dimensional torus manifolds with vanishing odd-degree cohomology (Q901321)

Torus manifolds are a topological generalization of toric manifolds [\textit{A. Hattori} and \textit{M. Masuda}, ``Theory of multi-fans'', Osaka J. Math. 40, No. 1, 1--68 (2003; Zbl 1034.57031)]. More precisely, a \(2n\)-dimensional closed, connected, oriented manifold is called a torus manifold, if it admits an effective action of an \(n\)-dimensional torus such that the fixed point set of the action is nonempty. While there is a one-to-one correspondence between toric manifolds and combinatorial objects called fans, there is no corresponding result for torus manifolds. Thus it is natural to ask, firstly, which subclasses of torus manifolds are completely determined by combinatorial objects such as multifans or torus graphs. Secondly, if such a subclass of torus manifolds is found, how can such torus manifolds be classified? M. Wiemeler answered the first question for the class of simply connected \(6\)-dimensional torus manifolds with vanishing odd-degree cohomology [\textit{M. Wiemeler}, ``Exotic torus manifolds and equivariant smooth structures of quasitoric manifolds'', Math. Z. 273, No. 3--4, 1063--1084 (2013; Zbl 1269.57014)]. In the paper under review, the author shows that there is a one-to-one correspondence between equivariant diffeomorphism types of these manifolds and \(3\)-valent labelled graphs, called torus graphs. Using this correspondence and combinatorial arguments, he proves that a simply connected \(6\)-dimensional torus manifold with vanishing odd-degree cohomology is equivariantly diffeomorphic to the \(6\)-dimensional sphere \({\mathbb{S}}^6\) or to an equivariant connected sum of copies of \(6\)-dimensional quasitoric manifolds or to \({\mathbb{S}}^4\)-bundles over \({\mathbb{S}}^2\).