The polyhedral product functor: A method of decomposition for moment-angle complexes, arrangements and related spaces (Q2637924)

The moment-angle complex is denoted \(Z(K;(D^2,S^1))\) where \(K\) is a finite simplicial complex. In this article, a polyhedron is defined to be the geometric realization of a simplicial complex. Generalized moment-angle complexes can be regarded as a functor from simplicial complexes with values given by subspaces of products of topological spaces. This article gives a natural decomposition of the suspension of generalized moment-angle complexes or partial product spaces which arise as polyhedral product functors described below. The geometrical decomposition presented here provides structure for the stable homotopy type of these spaces including spaces appearing in work of Goresky-MacPherson concerning complements of certain subspace arrangements, as well as Davis-Januszkiewicz and Buchstaber-Panov concerning moment-angle complexes. Since the stable decompositions here are geometric, they provide corresponding homological decompositions for generalized moment-angle complexes for any homology theory.