Kalai–Sarkaria conjecture on algebraic shifting and embeddability

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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.

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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