Topological classification of quasitoric manifolds with second Betti number 2 (Q433530)

A quasitoric manifold is a compact smooth \(2n\)-dimensional manifold with a locally standard action of an \(n\)-dimensional torus such that the orbit space can be identified with an \(n\)-dimensional simple polytope. This notion is a generalization of non-singular projective toric varieties.NEWLINENEWLINEIn this article quasitoric manifolds with second Betti number equal to two are classified up to non-equivariant homeomorphism. In each dimension \(2n\) these manifolds fall into two classes: \(\mathbb{C} P^{m}\)-bundles over \(\mathbb{C} P^{n-m}\) with \(0\leq m\leq n\) and finitely many exceptional examples.NEWLINENEWLINEAs a consequence of this classification it is shown that two quasitoric manifolds with second Betti number equal to two are homeomorphic if and only if they have isomorphic cohomology rings.