Remarks on the combinatorial intersection cohomology of fans

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DOI10.4310/PAMQ.2006.V2.N4.A10zbMATH Open1110.14019arXivmath/0511488MaRDI QIDQ866463FDOQ866463


Authors: Tom Braden Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 20 February 2007

Published in: Pure and Applied Mathematics Quarterly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We review the theory of combinatorial intersection cohomology of fans developed by Barthel-Brasselet-Fieseler-Kaup, Bressler-Lunts, and Karu. This theory gives a substitute for the intersection cohomology of toric varieties which has all the expected formal properties but makes sense even for non-rational fans, which do not define a toric variety. As a result, a number of interesting results on the toric g and h polynomials have been extended from rational polytopes to general polytopes. We present explicit complexes computing the combinatorial IH in degrees one and two; the degree two complex gives the rigidity complex previously used by Kalai to study g2. We present several new results which follow from these methods, as well as previously unpublished proofs of Kalai that gk(P)=0 implies gk(P)=0 and gk+1(P)=0.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0511488




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