Moment-angle manifolds associated to neighbourly triangulations of spheres

Amaranta Membrillo Solis, Stephen Theriault

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Moment-angle manifolds over neighbourly triangulations of odd spheres are homotopy equivalent to connected sums of products of two spheres.

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Moment-angle manifolds arise from simplicial complexes by combining torus actions with the complex in a specific way. When the underlying complex is a neighbourly triangulation of an odd-dimensional sphere, the paper shows these manifolds have a simple homotopy type: they are equivalent to a connected sum of products of spheres. The proof avoids geometric or combinatorial arguments and works entirely within homotopy theory. This approach also yields a parallel statement for generalized moment-angle manifolds, which relax some of the usual construction rules.

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The triangulation must be neighbourly and the sphere odd-dimensional; the homotopy-theoretic methods are assumed to apply without additional geometric constraints that might not hold in all cases.

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We show that a moment-angle manifold associated to a neighbourly triangulation of an odd dimensional sphere is homotopy equivalent to a connected sum of products of two spheres, resolving a problem of Buchstaber and Panov. The methods are entirely homotopy theoretic, allowing for an extension to a corresponding result in the case of generalized moment-angle manifolds.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript proves that the moment-angle manifold associated to a neighbourly triangulation of an odd-dimensional sphere is homotopy equivalent to a connected sum of products of two spheres. The argument is carried out entirely with homotopy-theoretic tools and extends to the corresponding statement for generalized moment-angle manifolds, thereby resolving a problem posed by Buchstaber and Panov.

Significance. The result supplies an explicit homotopy-type description for a natural class of moment-angle manifolds. The purely homotopy-theoretic approach is a genuine strength: it avoids additional geometric hypotheses and immediately yields the generalized statement. Resolution of the Buchstaber–Panov question is a clear contribution to toric topology.

minor comments (2)

The introduction would benefit from a brief reminder of the definition of a neighbourly triangulation and of the moment-angle construction before the main statement.
Notation for the triangulation K and the associated manifold Z_K should be fixed at the beginning of §2 and used consistently thereafter.

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We thank the referee for the positive summary, significance assessment, and recommendation to accept the manuscript. The report accurately captures the main result and its homotopy-theoretic approach.

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The paper states that its methods are entirely homotopy theoretic.

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Moment-angle manifolds associated to neighbourly triangulations of spheres

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