Todd genera of complex torus manifolds (Q691524)

A torus manifold is a \(2n\)-dimensional compact oriented manifold, acted on effectively by an \(n\)-dimensional compact torus with a fixed point. Toric manifolds are examples of torus manifolds, but conversely not all torus manifolds are toric; for example, torus manifold do not always admit an almost complex structure. It was recently proven by \textit{H. Ishida}, one of the authors, together with \textit{Y. Karshon} [``Completely integrable torus actions on complex manifolds with fixed points'', preprint, \url{arXiv:1203.0789}, to appear in Math. Res. Lett. (2012)] that a \textit{complex} torus manifold, i.e., a torus manifold with a complex structure invariant under the torus action, is already equivariantly biholomorphic to a toric manifold. In the paper at hand, somewhat weaker results are proven, but with different methods. The main result is that if a complex torus manifold has vanishing odd degree cohomology, then its Todd genus is equal to one, i.e., the same as that of a toric manifold. Using the result of \textit{M. W. Davis} and \textit{T. Januszkiewicz} [Duke Math. J. 62, No. 2, 417--451 (1991; Zbl 0733.52006)] that a quasitoric manifold is determined up to equivariant homeomorphism by its orbit space and the characteristic function, the authors deduce as a corollary to the main result that a quasitoric manifold admitting an invariant complex structure is equivariantly homeomorphic to a toric manifold.