Cohomological non-rigidity of generalized real Bott manifolds of height 2

DOI10.1134/S0081543810010165MaRDI QIDQ600723zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Mikiya Masuda

Publication date 1 November 2010

Published in Proceedings of the Steklov Institute of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0809.2215

zbMATH Keywords

Bott manifoldcohomological rigidityflat Riemannian manifoldtoric manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Toric varieties, Newton polyhedra, Okounkov bodies (14M25) Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25) Equivariant algebraic topology of manifolds (57R91)

Abstract: We investigate when two generalized real Bott manifolds of height 2 have isomorphic cohomology rings with Z/2 coefficients and also when they are diffeomorphic. It turns out that cohomology rings with Z/2 coefficients do not distinguish those manifolds up to diffeomorphism in general. This gives a counterexample to the cohomological rigidity problem for real toric manifolds posed in cite{ka-ma08}. We also prove that generalized real Bott manifolds of height 2 are diffeomorphic if they are homotopy equivalent.

Review text

The author and \textit{D. Y. Suh} [in: Harada, Megumi (ed.) et al., Toric topology. International conference, Osaka, Japan, May 28--June 3, 2006. Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society (AMS). Contemp. Math. 460, 273--286 (2008; Zbl 1160.57032)] raised the question about whether toric manifolds are diffeomorphic if their cohomology rings with \(\mathbb Z\) coefficients are isomorphic as graded rings. There are partial solutions but the problem is outstanding. Subsequently the author and \textit{Y. Kamishima} [Algebr. Geom. Topol. 9, No. 4, 2479--2502 (2009; Zbl 1195.57071)] asked the same question with regard to real toric manifolds and \(\mathbb Z/2\) cohomology rings. A real Bott manifold is the total space of an iterated \(\mathbb RP^1\) bundle, where each bundle is the projectivization of a Whitney sum of two line bundles. In the Kamishima and Masuda paper already cited and the author's work [Classification of real Bott manifolds; \url{arXiv:0809.2178v2}] the \(\mathbb Z/2\) version is proved for such real Bott manifolds. In the present work the author investigates a generalization to real toric manifolds obtained as the total spaces of the projectivization of Whitney sums of real line bundles over real projective spaces (what is defined as a generalized real Bott manifold of height 2). The \(\mathbb Z/2\) conjecture is shown to fail in general for such real toric manifolds. The author is able to show that if there is homotopy equivalence for these generalized real Bott manifolds of height 2 then there is diffeomorphic equivalence.

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