The facet lower-bound conjecture for k-neighborly polytopes

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Let PP be a dd-dimensional convex polytope, and let fi(P)f_i(P) denote the number of its ii-dimensional faces. A polytope is kk-neighborly if every subset of kk vertices is the vertex set of a face; here k≥2k\geq 2. Facet lower-bound conjecture. The number of facets satisfies

fd−1(P)≥f0(P).f_{d-1}(P)\geq f_0(P).

This proposes a lower bound for the facets of neighborly polytopes, complementing known face-number bounds for simplicial polytopes. The source does not provide evidence of resolution, so the conjecture is recorded as open.

References

Primary source

Aleksandr Maksimenko, “The lower bound for the number of facets of a k-neighborly d-polytope with d+3 vertices”, arXiv:1509.00362 (2018).

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