Cohen-Macaulay Du Bois singularities with a torus action of complexity one

Abstract

Using Altmann-Hausen-Suss description of $\mathbb{T}$-varieties via divisorial fans and K\'ovacs-Schwede-Smith characterization of Du Bois singularities, we study Cohen-Macaulay Du Bois $\mathbb{T}$-singularities of complexity one. We exhibit cohomological criteria for a $\mathbb{T}$-variety to be Cohen-Macaulay and Du Bois in terms of polyhedral divisors. We give an example of a Cohen-Macaulay Du Bois singularity of complexity one which does not have rational singularities.