Characteristic numbers of canonical toric manifolds and their applications

Abstract

We compute all the Chern, Milnor and Pontryagin numbers for canonical toric manifolds associated with abstract simplicial complexes and the Stiefel-Whitney numbers for their real counterparts. Applications include combinatorial characterizations of the unitary, oriented and unoriented bordism classes, new geometrical representatives of the unitary bordism ring generators, a combinatorial criterion for a canonical toric manifold to bound, as well as the dimension estimates for their immersions into euclidean spaces.