A spectral sequence for polyhedral products (Q507224)

In the present paper the autors analyse a spectral sequence abutting to the cohomology of the polyhedral product \(Z(K; (X,A))\) and the smash polyhedral product \(\widehat{Z}(K; (X,A))\) filtering this space with the left-lexicographical ordering of simplices. Recall that the CW complex \(Z(K; (X,A))\) is a construction introduced in toric topology by the authors, which is assigned to a simplicial complex \(K\) and pairs of topological spaces \((X_i,A_i)\) and which generalizes moment-angle complexes, one of the main objects studied in toric topology. The central result in the article is Theorem 2.15. Sections 3 and 4 are dedicated to description and differentials in the spectral sequence. Among the important results is the calculation of the Hilbert-Poincaré series of the polyhedral product in terms of full-subcomplexes of \(K\) and the kernel, image and cokernel of the induced maps \(H^* (X_i)\rightarrow H^* (A_i)\). Using techniques developed in the previous section, in Section 7 the authors calculate the cohomology ring structure of the real moment-angle complex \(Z(K; (D^1,S^0))\). The proofs are given in detail since most of them use a lot of technically demanding machinery from algebraic topology and homological algebra, but the authors illustrate the applications with a lot of nice and useful examples. Undoubtedly, this is a highly relevant paper for the theory of polyhedral products and especially for readers oriented towards an algebra approach.