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Intersection Homology of Toric Varieties and a Conjecture of Kalai

Tom C. Braden, Robert D. MacPherson

alg-geomarXiv:alg-geom/9704014

Abstract

We prove that the intersection homology Poincare' polynomial P(X) of an affine toric variety X is bounded below by the product P(Y)P(X/Y), where Y is the closure of any orbit in X and X/Y is a slice transverse to the orbit. This proves a combinatorial conjecture of Kalai for rational polytopes.

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