Moment angle complexes and duality for tight manifolds

Abstract

For a field $\mathbb{F}$ and a triangulated compact $\mathbb{F}$-orientable manifold, consider the homology of the associated Moment-Angle ccomplex $H_*(\mathcal{Z}_{\mathcal{K}})$. We show the total homology rank $\beta(\mathcal{Z}_{\mathcal{K}})$ satisfies the inequality $\beta(\mathcal{Z}_{\mathcal{K}};\mathbb{F})\geq 2^{m-1}(\beta(\mathcal{K};\mathbb{F})-2)+2$, with equality occurring exactly when the triangulation is $\mathbb{F}$-tight. Using Lefschetz duality, we introduce a short exact sequence of functors that, in turn, introduces a new duality theorem in Double Homology for tight manifold triangulations.