Dong Youp Suh

If $B$ is a toric manifold and $E$ is a Whitney sum of complex line bundles over $B$, then the projectivization $P(E)$ of $E$ is again a toric manifold. Starting with $B$ as a point and repeating this construction, we obtain a sequence of complex projective bundles which we call a generalized Bott tower. We prove that if the top manifold in the tower has the same cohomology ring as a product of complex projective spaces, then every fibration in the tower is trivial so that the top manifold is di

A quasitoric manifold (resp. a small cover) is a $2n$-dimensional (resp. an $n$-dimensional) smooth closed manifold with an effective locally standard action of $(S^{1})^{n}$ (resp. $(\mathbb{Z}_{2})^{n}$) whose orbit space is combinatorially an $n$-dimensional simple convex polytope $P$. In this paper we study them when $P$ is a product of simplices. A generalized Bott tower over $\mathbb{F}$, where $\mathbb{F}=\mathbb{C}$ or $\mathbb{R}$, is a sequence of projective bundles of the Whitney sum

Several rigidity problems in toric topology are addressed in the survey paper by the second and third authors, “Classification Problems of Toric Manifolds via Topology” (in Toric Topology , Am. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 2008, pp. 273–286). In the present paper, we survey the results on those problems including recent developments.

We propose some problems on the classification of toric manifolds from the viewpoint of topology and survey related results.

A quasitoric manifold is a 2n-dimensional compact smooth manifold with a locally standard action of an n-dimensional torus whose orbit space is a simple polytope.We classify quasitoric manifolds with second Betti number β 2 = 2 topologically.Interestingly, they are distinguished by their cohomology rings up to homeomorphism.

For certain even order cyclic and some non-cyclic abelian groups G we construct smooth actions on homotopy spheres with exactly two fixed points, G -{p, q}, such that the tangential representations T P and T q are not isomorphic.

The cohomological rigidity problem for toric manifolds asks whether the integral cohomology ring of a toric manifold determines the topological type of the manifold. In this paper, we consider the problem with the class of one-twist Bott manifolds to get an affirmative answer to the problem. We also generalize the result to quasitoric manifolds. In doing so, we show that the twist number of a Bott manifold is well-defined and is equal to the cohomological complexity of the cohomology ring of the

We propose some problems on the classification of toric manifolds from the viewpoint of topology and survey related results.

To a direct sum of holomorphic line bundles, we can associate two fibrations, whose fibers are, respectively, the corresponding full flag manifold and the corresponding projective space. Iterating these procedures gives, respectively, a flag Bott tower and a generalized Bott tower. It is known that a generalized Bott tower is a toric manifold. However a flag Bott tower is not toric in general but we show that it is a GKM manifold, and we also show that for a given generalized Bott tower we can f