Remarks on the combinatorial intersection cohomology of fans

DOI10.4310/PAMQ.2006.V2.N4.A10MaRDI QIDQ866463zbMATHFDO

Authors Tom Braden

Publication date 20 February 2007

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

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

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Toric varieties, Newton polyhedra, Okounkov bodies (14M25) Other algebro-geometric (co)homologies (e.g., intersection, equivariant, Lawson, Deligne (co)homologies) (14F43)

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 $g_2$. We present several new results which follow from these methods, as well as previously unpublished proofs of Kalai that $g_k(P)=0$ implies $g_k(P^{\ast })=0$ and $g_{k+1}(P)=0$.

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