Kalai–Sarkaria conjecture on algebraic shifting and embeddability
Let be a simplicial complex on vertices. For a shifted complex associated with , let denote the pure -dimensional simplicial complex defined by the maximal simplices satisfying the stated cyclic-polytope condition.
Kalai–Sarkaria conjecture. If admits an embedding into , then
The type of algebraic shifting is not specified in the cited formulation. Since shifting preserves -vectors, this containment would imply upper bounds for the face numbers of complexes embeddable in spheres and Euclidean spaces.
References
Primary source
Anna Gundert, “On the Complexity of Embeddable Simplicial Complexes”, arXiv:1812.08447 (2018).
Additional references
3 papers in this index state this conjecture (2007–2018). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1312.0209, arXiv:0709.0988.
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