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Advances in Mathematics

Volume 212, Issue 2, 10 July 2007, Pages 458-483
Advances in Mathematics

Torus graphs and simplicial posets

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Abstract

For several important classes of manifolds acted on by the torus, the information about the action can be encoded combinatorially by a regular n-valent graph with vector labels on its edges, which we refer to as the torus graph. By analogy with the GKM-graphs, we introduce the notion of equivariant cohomology of a torus graph, and show that it is isomorphic to the face ring of the associated simplicial poset. This extends a series of previous results on the equivariant cohomology of torus manifolds. As a primary combinatorial application, we show that a simplicial poset is Cohen–Macaulay if its face ring is Cohen–Macaulay. This completes the algebraic characterisation of Cohen–Macaulay posets initiated by Stanley. We also study blow-ups of torus graphs and manifolds from both the algebraic and the topological points of view.

Keywords

Torus graphs
Simplicial posets
Cohen–Macaulay posets
Torus manifolds
GKM-graphs
Equivariant cohomology
Blow-ups

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The author was supported by the 21 COE Programme at Osaka City University, the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (grant no. P05296), and the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (grant no. 04-01-00702).