Moment-angle manifolds and connected sums of sphere products (Q5964049)

Given a simple polytope \(P\) with \(m\) facets, \textit{M. W. Davis} and \textit{T. Januszkiewicz} [Duke Math. J. 62, No. 2, 417--451 (1991; Zbl 0733.52006)] constructed a manifold \(\mathcal{Z}_P\) with an action of a real torus \(T^m\). After that, \textit{V. M. Buchstaber} and \textit{T. E. Panov} [Russ. Math. Surv. 55, No. 5, 825--921 (2000); translation from Usp. Mat. Nauk 55, No. 5, 3--106 (2000; Zbl 1010.52011)] generalized this definition to any simplicial complex \(K\), that is \[ \mathcal{Z}_K=\bigcup_{\sigma\in K}(D^2)^{\sigma}\times (S^1)^{[m]\setminus \sigma}, \] and named it the moment-angle complex associated to \(K\), whose study connects algebraic geometry, topology, combinatorics, and commutative algebra. This cellular complex is always \(2\)-connected and has dimension \(m+n+1\), where \(n\) is the dimension of \(K\). Before publication of the paper under review, all known examples of moment--angle manifolds which are homeomorphic to connected sums of sphere products had the property that every product is of exactly two spheres. In this paper, the authors give an example whose cohomology ring is isomorphic to that of a connected sum of sphere products with one product of three spheres. The authors also give some general properties of this kind of moment--angle manifolds.