The higher derived functors of the primitive element functor of quasitoric manifolds

Let P be an n-dimensional, q ⩾ 1 neighborly simple convex polytope and let M 2 n ( λ ) be the corresponding quasitoric manifold. The manifold depends on a particular map of lattices λ : Z m → Z n where m is the number of facets of P. In this note we use ESP-sequences in the sense of Larry Smith to show that the higher derived functors of the primitive element functor are independent of λ. Coupling this with results that appear in Bousfield (1970) [3] we are able to enrich the library of nice homology coalgebras by showing that certain families of quasitoric manifolds are nice, at least rationally, from Bousfieldʼs perspective.