A refinement of the toral rank conjecture for 2-step nilpotent Lie algebras (Q4501072)

According to the Toral Rank Conjecture [\textit{S. Halperin}, Ann. Inst. Fourier 37, No.~4, 77-97 (1987; Zbl 0625.57022)] \(|H_*(\mathfrak g)|\geq 2^{|\mathfrak z|}\), where \(\mathfrak g\) is a nilpotent Lie algebra (over \(\mathbb R\) or \(\mathbb C\)) and \(\mathfrak z =\)center\((\mathfrak g).\) It is proved that \[ |H_*(\mathfrak g)|\geq 2^{|\mathfrak z|+[\frac {|v|+1}{2}]} \] when \(\mathfrak g\) is a 2-step nilpotent Lie algebra of finite dimension (over \(\mathbb R\) or \(\mathbb C\)) and \(|v|=\text{codim }\mathfrak z.\) The author shows that it is the best possible lower bound of the form \(2^t\).