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Product decompositions of moment-angle manifolds and B-rigidity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2023

Steven Amelotte*
Affiliation:
Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics, Brown University, Providence, RI 02903, USA
Benjamin Briggs
Affiliation:
Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, 17 Gauss Way, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA e-mail: bbriggs@msri.org

Abstract

A simple polytope P is called B-rigid if its combinatorial type is determined by the cohomology ring of the moment-angle manifold $\mathcal {Z}_P$ over P. We show that any tensor product decomposition of this cohomology ring is geometrically realized by a product decomposition of the moment-angle manifold up to equivariant diffeomorphism. As an application, we find that B-rigid polytopes are closed under products, generalizing some recent results in the toric topology literature. Algebraically, our proof establishes that the Koszul homology of a Gorenstein Stanley–Reisner ring admits a nontrivial tensor product decomposition if and only if the underlying simplicial complex decomposes as a join of full subcomplexes.

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© The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Canadian Mathematical Society

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