Symmetric infinitesimal rigidity conjecture for centrally symmetric complexes

Let Δ\Delta be a (d1)(d-1)-dimensional centrally symmetric simplicial complex with an involution ϕ\phi, and let G(Δ)G(\Delta) be its graph. A dd-embedding is a map ρ:V(Δ)Rd\rho:V(\Delta)\to{\mathbb R}^d whose vertex positions give a dd-dimensional framework; it respects symmetry when

ρ(ϕ(v))=ρ(v)\rho(\phi(v))=-\rho(v)

for every vertex vv. The framework (G(Δ),ρ)(G(\Delta),\rho) is infinitesimally rigid when it has no nontrivial first-order edge-length-preserving deformations beyond Euclidean motions.

Symmetric infinitesimal rigidity conjecture. If Δ\Delta is a simplicial sphere, a connected simplicial manifold, or a normal pseudomanifold and d13d-1\geq 3, then there exists a symmetry-respecting dd-embedding ρ\rho for which (G(Δ),ρ)(G(\Delta),\rho) 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.

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Isabella Novik, “A tale of centrally symmetric polytopes and spheres”, arXiv:1711.09310 (2017).

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