Steenrod problem and some graded Stanley-Reisner rings

Abstract

``What kind of ring can be represented as the singular cohomology ring of a space?'' is a classic problem in algebraic topology, posed by Steenrod. In this paper, we consider this problem when rings are the graded Stanley-Reisner rings, in other words the polynomial rings divided by an ideal generated by square-free monomials. Under some assumption, we give a necessary and sufficiently condition that a graded Stanley-Reisner ring is realizable.

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• The classification of 2-compact groups
• The Steenrod problem of realizing polynomial cohomology rings