Cohomological properties of the Vietoris–Rips complex of a hypercube graph

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We develop a toric topological framework for studying the cohomology of Vietoris–Rips complexes VR left parenthesis Qn semicolon r right parenthesis $VR(Q_n;r)$ V R ( Q n ; r ) of hypercube graphs. Using total domination invariants and spectral methods, we establish general lower bounds on connectivity, which lead to infinite families of counterexamples to Shukla’s conjecture, and derive first global upper bounds on coconnectivity. Our approach interprets Vietoris–Rips complexes via Stanley–Reisner rings, moment-angle complexes, and Tor algebras, allowing global topological information to be extracted from combinatorial data. In a second direction, we construct explicit cohomology classes using the Koszul resolution and show that they are decomposable products of 1 $1$ 1 -dimensional classes, and that their representatives can be combinatorially realized as the boundary of cross polytopes, positively answering the question posed by Adams and Virk. We introduce ghost vertices as a new tool for detecting, extending, and proving linear independence of cohomology classes.