Kühnel and Lutz's tightness conjecture on strong minimality

Let XX be a simplicial complex. Call XX F\mathbb{F}-tight when it has the tightness property over a field F\mathbb{F}, and call it strongly minimal when it achieves the componentwise smallest face vector among all triangulations of its geometric carrier X|X|. Kühnel and Lutz's tightness conjecture. Every F\mathbb{F}-tight simplicial complex is strongly minimal. If true, this would strengthen ordinary minimality by asserting that tight triangulations minimize every face-number component among triangulations of the same carrier; the source presents it as an open conjecture.

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Bhaskar Bagchi and Basudeb Datta, “On stellated spheres and a tightness criterion for combinatorial manifolds”, arXiv:1207.5599 (2013).

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