Highly connected non-formal Milnor fibers via polyhedral products

Mathematics > Algebraic Topology [Submitted on 10 May 2026 (v1), last revised 17 Jun 2026 (this version, v2)] Title:Highly connected non-formal Milnor fibers via polyhedral products View PDF HTML (experimental)Abstract:We show that the realization theorem of Fernández de Bobadilla, which identifies the Milnor fiber of a weighted-homogeneous polynomial with the complement of a germ of analytic set, can be combined with the systematic Massey product constructions of Grbić-Linton for moment-angle complexes $\mathcal{Z}_K = \mathcal{Z}_K(D^2, S^1)$ to produce weighted-homogeneous polynomials whose Milnor fibers are arbitrarily highly connected and non-formal. The original application of this strategy, due to Fernández de Bobadilla, used the Denham-Suciu classification of lowest-degree triple Massey products and yielded only 2-connected non-formal Milnor fibers. The Grbić-Linton framework, which constructs non-trivial $n$-fold Massey products in $H^*(\mathcal{Z}_K;\mathbb{Z})$ for arbitrary $n$ and in arbitrary cohomological degrees, removes this connectivity restriction entirely. Submission history From: Alexander I. Suciu [view email][v1] Sun, 10 May 2026 01:48:37 UTC (25 KB) [v2] Wed, 17 Jun 2026 22:57:50 UTC (32 KB) Current browse context: math.AT References & Citations Loading... Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer (What is the Explorer?) Connected Papers (What is Connected Papers?) Litmaps (What is Litmaps?) scite Smart Citations (What are Smart Citations?) Code, Data and Media Associated with this Article alphaXiv (What is alphaXiv?) CatalyzeX Code Finder for Papers (What is CatalyzeX?) DagsHub (What is DagsHub?) Gotit.pub (What is GotitPub?) Hugging Face (What is Huggingface?) ScienceCast (What is ScienceCast?) Demos Recommenders and Search Tools Influence Flower (What are Influence Flowers?) CORE Recommender (What is CORE?) arXivLabs: experimental projects with community collaborators arXivLabs is a framework that allows collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on our website. Both individuals and organizations that work with arXivLabs have embraced and accepted our values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only works with partners that adhere to them. Have an idea for a project that will add value for arXiv's community? Learn more about arXivLabs.