Universal complexes in toric topology (Q6076658)

The paper is devoted to the so called universal complexes \(X(\mathbb F^n_p)\) and \(K(\mathbb F^n_p)\), that play an important role in mod \(p\) toric topology and its applications. The faces of those simplicial complexes are certain unimodular subsets of \(\mathbb F^n_p\). The authors compute \(f\)-vectors of those complexes as well as their bigraded Betti numbers. Furthermore, they show that the complexes are shellable. Turning from combinatorial commutative algebra to homotopy theory, the authors prove that the Lusternik-Schnirelmann category of the moment-angle-complex of the simplicial complex \(X(\mathbb F^n_p)\) equals \(n\), provided \(p\) is an odd prime, whereas the Lusternik-Schnirelmann category of the moment-angle-complex of the simplicial complex \(K(\mathbb F^n_p)\) equals \([n/2]\). Finally, they introduce the Buchstaber invariant \(s_p\) for a prime number \(p\) based on the theory of universal complexes.