The exact formula conjecture for the topological Tverberg threshold

Let Nr(d)N_r(d) denote the least integer NN such that every continuous map from the NN-simplex to Rd\mathbb{R}^d identifies points from rr pairwise disjoint faces. The parameters satisfy r2r\ge 2 and d1d\ge 1.

Exact formula conjecture.

Nr(d)={(r1)(d+1)if r is a power of a prime or dr,(˚d+1)1otherwise.N_r(d)=\begin{cases}(r-1)(d+1)&\text{if }r\text{ is a power of a prime or }d\le r,\r(d+1)-1&\text{otherwise}.\end{cases}

This predicts the precise threshold governing the failure of the topological Tverberg phenomenon. The supplied text does not provide evidence resolving the conjecture.

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Pavle V. M. Blagojević, Florian Frick and Günter M. Ziegler, “Barycenters of Polytope Skeleta and Counterexamples to the Topological Tverberg Conjecture, via Constraints”, arXiv:1510.07984 (2019).

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