On the cohomology of moment-angle complexes associated to Gorenstein* complexes

MaRDI QIDQ6264128zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Feifei Fan, Xiangjun Wang

Publication date 1 August 2015

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial identities, bijective combinatorics (05A19) Combinatorial aspects of commutative algebra (05E40) Commutative rings defined by monomial ideals; Stanley-Reisner face rings; simplicial complexes (13F55) Combinatorial properties of polytopes and polyhedra (number of faces, shortest paths, etc.) (52B05) Three-dimensional polytopes (52B10) Simplicial sets and complexes in algebraic topology (55U10) Algebraic topology on manifolds and differential topology (57R19)

Abstract: The main goal of this article is to study the cohomology rings and their applications of moment-angle complexes associated to Gorenstein* complexes, especially, the applications in combinatorial commutative algebra and combinatorics. First, we give a topological characterization of Gorenstein* complexes in terms of Alexander duality (as an application we give a topological proof of Stanley's Theorem). Next we give some cohomological transformation formulae of $mathcal{Z}_K$, which are induced by some combinatorial operations on the Gorenstein* complex $K$, such as the connected sum operation and stellar subdivisions. We also prove that $mathcal{Z}_K$ is a prime manifold whenever $K$ is a flag $2$-sphere by proving the indecomposability of their cohomology rings. Then we use these results to give the unique decomposition of the cohomology rings of moment-angle manifolds associated to simplicial $2$-spheres, and explain how to use it to detect the cohomological rigidity problem of these moment-angle manifolds.

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