Hard Lefschetz conjecture for combinatorial intersection cohomology of arbitrary polytopes

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Let ΔRd\Delta\subset\mathbb{R}^d be a polytope, let Φ\Phi be its dual fan, and let MΦ\overline{M}_\Phi be the quotient combinatorial intersection cohomology module defined from the basic sheaf on Φ\Phi. For a linear functional ξRd\xi\in\mathbb{R}^{d*}, let SΔ(ξ)S_\Delta(\xi) be its maximum on Δ\Delta; this gives a piecewise-linear element SΔOΦS_\Delta\in O_\Phi. Hard Lefschetz conjecture. For every k<d/2k<d/2, multiplication by SΔd2kS_\Delta^{d-2k} should establish an isomorphism

MΦkMΦdk,\overline{M}^k_\Phi\longrightarrow\overline{M}^{d-k}_\Phi,

and multiplication by SΔS_\Delta should be an embedding

MΦkMΦk+1.\overline{M}^k_\Phi\longrightarrow\overline{M}^{k+1}_\Phi.

This is the combinatorial analogue of the Hard Lefschetz theorem for toric varieties. It is known for integral polytopes, while the source states that it is believed to hold for arbitrary polytopes.

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Primary source

Vladlen Timorin, “On polytopes simple in edges”, arXiv:math/0010213 (2001).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2000). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:math/0002006.

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