Example of C-rigid polytopes which are not B-rigid

A simple polytope P is said to be B-rigid if its combinatorial structure is characterized by its Tor-algebra, and is said to be C-rigid if its combinatorial structure is characterized by the cohomology ring of a quasitoric manifold over P. It is known that a B-rigid simple polytope is C-rigid. In this paper, we show that the B-rigidity is not equivalent to the C-rigidity.

A Uniform Asymptotical Upper Bound for the Variance of a Random Polytope in a Simple Polytope

The present paper contains a sketch of the proof of an upper bound for the variance of the number of hyperfaces of a random polytope when the mother body is a simple polytope. Thus we verify a weaker version of the result in [1] stated without a proof. The article is published in the author’s wording.

Small covers, infra-solvmanifolds and curvature

It is shown that a small cover (resp. real moment-angle manifold) over a simple polytope is an infra-solvmanifold if and only if it is diffeomorphic to a real Bott manifold (resp. flat torus). Moreover, we obtain several equivalent conditions for a small cover to be homeomorphic to a real Bott manifold. In addition, we study Riemannian metrics on small covers and real moment-angle manifolds with certain conditions on the Ricci or sectional curvature. We will see that these curvature conditions put very strong restrictions on the topology of the corresponding small covers and real moment-angle manifolds and the combinatorial structures of the underlying simple polytopes.

Symplectic Toric Geometry and the Regular Dodecahedron

The regular dodecahedron is the only simple polytope among the platonic solids which is not rational. Therefore, it corresponds neither to a symplectic toric manifold nor to a symplectic toric orbifold. In this paper, we associate to the regular dodecahedron a highly singular space called symplectic toric quasifold.

The short toric polynomial

International audience We introduce the short toric polynomial associated to a graded Eulerian poset. This polynomial contains the same information as Stanley's pair of toric polynomials, but allows different algebraic manipulations. Stanley's intertwined recurrence may be replaced by a single recurrence, in which the degree of the discarded terms is independent of the rank. A short toric variant of the formula by Bayer and Ehrenborg, expressing the toric h-vector in terms of the cd-index, may be stated in a rank-independent form, and it may be shown using weighted lattice path enumeration and the reflection principle. We use our techniques to derive a formula expressing the toric h-vector of a dual simplicial Eulerian poset in terms of its f-vector. This formula implies Gessel's formula for the toric h-vector of a cube, and may be used to prove that the nonnegativity of the toric h-vector of a simple polytope is a consequence of the Generalized Lower Bound Theorem holding for simplicial polytopes. Nous introduisons le polynôme torique court associé à un ensemble ordonné Eulérien. Ce polynôme contient la même information que le couple de polynômes toriques de Stanley, mais il permet des manipulations algébriques différentes. La récurrence entrecroisée de Stanley peut être remplacée par une seule récurrence dans laquelle le degré des termes écartés est indépendant du rang. La variante torique courte de la formule de Bayer et Ehrenborg, qui exprime le vecteur torique d'un ensemble ordonné Eulérien en termes de son cd-index, est énoncée sous une forme qui ne dépend pas du rang et qui peut être démontrée en utilisant une énumération des chemins pondérés et le principe de réflexion. Nous utilisons nos techniques pour dériver une formule exprimant le vecteur h-torique d'un ensemble ordonné Eulérien dont le dual est simplicial, en termes de son f-vecteur. Cette formule implique la formule de Gessel pour le vecteur h-torique d'un cube, et elle peut être utilisée pour démontrer que la positivité du vecteur h-torique d'un polytope simple est une conséquence du Théorème de la Borne Inférieure Généralisé appliqué aux polytopes simpliciaux.

Weighted Brianchon-Gram Decomposition

We give in this note a weighted version of Brianchon and Gram's decomposition for a simple polytope. We can derive from this decomposition the weighted polar formula of Agapito and a weighted version of Brion's theorem, in a manner similar to Haase, where the unweighted case is worked out. This weighted version of Brianchon and Gram's decomposition is a direct consequence of the ordinary Brianchon–Gram formula.