Let $X$ be a $4$-dimensional toric orbifold. If $H^3(X)$ has a non-trivial odd primary torsion, then we show that $X$ is homotopy equivalent to the wedge of a Moore space and a CW-complex. As a corollary, given two 4-dimensional toric orbifolds having no 2-torsion in the cohomology, we prove that they have the same homotopy type if and only their integral cohomology rings are isomorphic.
We classify a number of symmetry protected phases using Freed-Hopkins homotopy theoretic classification. Along the way we compute the low-dimensional homotopy groups of a number of novel cobordism spectra.
We determine the number of distinct fibre homotopy types for the gauge groups of principal $Sp(2)$-bundles over a closed, simply-connected four-manifold.
We say that a complete nonsingular toric variety (called a toric manifold in this paper) is over $P$ if its quotient by the compact torus is homeomorphic to $P$ as a manifold with corners. Bott manifolds (or Bott towers) are toric manifolds over an $n$-cube $I^n$ and blowing them up at a fixed point produces toric manifolds over $mathrm{vc}(I^n)$ an $n$-cube with one vertex cut. They are all projective. On the other hand, Odas $3$-fold, the simplest non-projective toric manifold, is over $mathrm{vc}(I^n)$. In this paper, we classify toric manifolds over $mathrm{vc}(I^n)$ $(nge 3)$ as varieties and also as smooth manifolds. As a consequence, it turns out that (1) there are many non-projective toric manifolds over $mathrm{vc}(I^n)$ but they are all diffeomorphic, and (2) toric manifolds over $mathrm{vc}(I^n)$ in some class are determined by their cohomology rings as varieties among toric manifolds.