Symmetric infinitesimal rigidity conjecture for centrally symmetric complexes
Let be a -dimensional centrally symmetric simplicial complex with an involution , and let be its graph. A -embedding is a map whose vertex positions give a -dimensional framework; it respects symmetry when
for every vertex . The framework is infinitesimally rigid when it has no nontrivial first-order edge-length-preserving deformations beyond Euclidean motions.
Symmetric infinitesimal rigidity conjecture. If is a simplicial sphere, a connected simplicial manifold, or a normal pseudomanifold and , then there exists a symmetry-respecting -embedding for which is infinitesimally rigid.
If true, this would imply the inequality part of the centrally symmetric lower bound conjecture. The survey presents it as an open conjecture.
References
Primary source
Isabella Novik, “A tale of centrally symmetric polytopes and spheres”, arXiv:1711.09310 (2017).
Progress summary
Nothing recorded yet. Refresh searches the literature and the public web for attempts on this problem, and writes the first summary here.
Solutions 0
No solutions have been posted yet.