Locally standard torus actions and sheaves over Buchsbaum posets

Manifolds with locally standard half-dimensional torus actions represent a large and important class of spaces. Cohomology rings of such manifolds are known in particular cases, but in general even Betti numbers are difficult to compute. Our approach to this problem is the following: we consider the orbit type filtration on a manifold with locally standard action and study the induced spectral sequence in homology. It collapses at the second page only in the case when the orbit space is homologically trivial. The cohomology ring in this case has already been computed. Nevertheless, we can completely describe the spectral sequence under more general assumptions, namely when all proper faces of the orbit space are acyclic. The theory of sheaves and cosheaves on finite partially ordered sets is used in the computation. We establish generalizations of the Poincare duality and the Zeeman-McCrory spectral sequence for sheaves of ideals of exterior algebras.
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