Formality of certain CW complexes and applications to Schubert varieties and torus manifolds

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Authors Prateep Chakraborty, Parameswaran Sankaran

Publication date 21 January 2014

Published in Journal of the Ramanujan Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1301.5421

zbMATH Keywords

rational homotopy typeSullivan algebraminimal modelformal spacecell attachmentdifferential graded commutative algebrarationalization of a space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Toric varieties, Newton polyhedra, Okounkov bodies (14M25) Grassmannians, Schubert varieties, flag manifolds (14M15) Rational homotopy theory (55P62)

Abstract: Let $X$ be a simply connected path connected topological space which is formal in the sense of rational homotopy theory. Let $Y=Xcu{p}_{a}lphamathbb{D}^n$ where $alpha:mathbb{S}^{n-1}oX$ is a non-torsion element. Then we obtain a condition on $alpha$ for the formality of $Y$. We give several illustrative examples concerning the formality of a finite CW complex having only even dimensional cells. This is the corrected version of the earlier version which contained a serious error in Theorem 1.4. This theorem, which now Theorem 1.1 of this version, has now been corrected. The proofs of Theorems 1.1, 1.2, and 1.3 of the first version are not valid as they used the erroneous result. In fact, we provide here a counterexample to the assertion of Theorem 1.1. (See Example 3.1 below.) We do not know if the statement of Theorem 1.2, which asserted the formality of Schubert varieties in a generalized flag variety $G/B$, is valid. Theorem 1.3 is correct as stated as it had been proved previously by Panov and Ray using entirely different techniques.

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