Homotopy commutativity in quasitoric manifolds
Algebraic Topology
2026-05-06 v2 Geometric Topology
Abstract
We prove that the loop space of a quasitoric manifold is homotopy commutative if and only if the underlying polytope is a product of -simplices and the characteristic matrix is equivalent to a matrix of certain type. Quasitoric manifolds over include generalized Bott manifolds, and we also construct an infinite family of homotopy nonequivalent generalized Bott manifolds over , only half of them have homotopy commutative loop spaces. In particular, for each , there are infinitely many homotopy types in -dimensional quasitoric manifolds having homotopy (non)commutative loop spaces.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2404.01510,
title = {Homotopy commutativity in quasitoric manifolds},
author = {Sho Hasui and Daisuke Kishimoto and Yichen Tong and Mitsunobu Tsutaya},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.01510},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
14 pages, small expository changes from the first version