Kalai–Sarkaria conjecture on algebraic shifting and embeddability

Let KK be a simplicial complex on nn vertices. For a shifted complex Δ(K)\Delta(K) associated with KK, let Δ(r+1,n)\Delta(r+1,n) denote the pure rr-dimensional simplicial complex defined by the maximal simplices satisfying the stated cyclic-polytope condition.

Kalai–Sarkaria conjecture. If KK admits an embedding into SrS^{r}, then

Δ(K)Δ(r+1,n).\Delta(K) \subseteq \Delta(r+1,n).

The type of algebraic shifting is not specified in the cited formulation. Since shifting preserves ff-vectors, this containment would imply upper bounds for the face numbers of complexes embeddable in spheres and Euclidean spaces.

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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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