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We consider an operation K ↦ L(K) on the set of simplicial complexes, which we call the “doubling operation.” This combinatorial operation was recently introduced in toric topology in an unpublished paper of Bahri, Bendersky, Cohen and Gitler on generalized moment-angle complexes (also known as K-powers). The main property of the doubling operation is that the moment-angle complex 
can be identified with the real moment-angle complex 
for the double L(K). By way of application, we prove the toral rank conjecture for the spaces 
by providing a lower bound for the rank of the cohomology ring of the real moment-angle complexes 
. This paper can be viewed as a continuation of the author’s previous paper, where the doubling operation for polytopes was used to prove the toral rank conjecture for moment-angle manifolds.
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Original Russian Text © Yu. M. Ustinovskii, 2011, published in Matematicheskie Zametki, 2011, Vol. 90, No. 2, pp. 300–305.
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Ustinovskii, Y.M. Toral rank conjecture for moment-angle complexes. Math Notes 90, 279 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0001434611070273
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S0001434611070273