Remarks on the classification of quasitoric manifolds up to equivariant homeomorphism (Q663174): Difference between revisions

A quasitoric manifold, as introduced by \textit{M. W. Davis} and \textit{T. Januszkiewicz} [Duke Math. J. 62, No. 2, 417--451 (1991; Zbl 0733.52006)] under the name of toric manifold, is a \(2n\)-dimensional manifold \(M\) on which an \(n\)-dimensional torus \(T\) acts in a locally standard fashion, such that the orbit space \(M/T\) is, as a manifold with corners, diffeomorphic to a simple polytope. As proven in the reference above, a quasitoric manifold is determined up to \(T\)-equivariant homeomorphism by the combinatorial type of the simple polytope \(M/T\), and the map which sends a facet of \(M/T\) to its isotropy subcircle. This fact is used by the author to find three criteria when two quasitoric manifolds are (weakly) equivariantly homeomorphic: one in terms of their cohomology rings, one in terms of bordism, and one in terms of their GKM graphs. The first criterion is used to count the number of quasitoric manifolds up to weakly equivariant homeomorphism which have the same cohomology ring as \({\mathbb C}P^n \# {\mathbb C}P^n\) or \({\mathbb C}P^n \# \overline{{\mathbb C}P^n}\).