The integral cohomology ring of four-dimensional toric orbifolds

Abstract: Although toric orbifolds are fundamental objects in toric topology, their cohomology rings are largely unknown except for very few special cases. The goal of this paper is to investigate the cohomology rings of 4-dimensional toric orbifolds. Let $X(P,\lambda)$ is a 4-dimensional toric orbifold associated to a polygon $P$ and a characteristic function $\lambda$. Assuming $X(P,\lambda)$ is locally smooth over a vertex of $P$, we construct an additive basis of $H^*(X(P,\lambda);\mathbb{Z})$ and express the cup products of the basis elements in terms of $P$ and $\lambda$. Further we derive a formula for computing cup products in $H^*(X(P,\lambda);R)$, where $X(P,\lambda)$ is any general 4-dimensional toric orbifold and $R$ is a principal ideal domain satisfying a mild condition.