Mathematics – Geometric Topology
Scientific paper
2009-01-16
Mathematics
Geometric Topology
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Scientific paper
The topology of the intersection of two real homogeneous coaxial quadrics was studied by the second author who showed that its intersection with the unit sphere is in most cases diffeomorphic to a connected sum of sphere products. In the present work we study the intersections of k>2 quadrics. Combinaning that approach with a recent one (due to Antony Bahri, Martin Bendersky, Fred Cohen and the first author) we identify very general families of such manifolds that are diffeomorphic to connected sums of sphere products. These include those moment-angle manifolds where the result was conjectured by Frederic Bosio and Laurent Meersseman. As a byproduct, a simpler and neater proof of the result for the case k=2 is obtained. Two new sections contain results not included in the first version of this article: Section 2 describes the topological change on the manifolds after the operations of cutting off a vertex or an edge of the associated polytope, which can be combined in a special way with the previos results to produce new infinite families of manifolds that are connected sums of sphere products. In other cases we get slightly more complicated manifolds: with this we solve another question by Bosio-Meersseman about the manifold associated to the truncated cube. In Section 3 we use this to show that the known rules for the cohomology product of a moment-angle manifold have to be drastically modified in the general situation. We state the modified rule, but leave the details of this for another publication. Section 0 recalls known definitions and results and in section 2.1 some elementary topological constructions are defined and explored. In the Appendix we state and prove some results about specific differentiable manifolds, which are used in sections 1 and 2.
de Medrano Santiago Lopez
Gitler Samuel
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