Missing-face extension conjecture for affine stresses

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Let P⊆RdP\subseteq \mathbb R^d be a simplicial polytope of dimension d≥2k−1d\geq 2k-1, with k≥2k\geq 2. Let GG be a missing (k−1)(k-1)-face of ∂P\partial P, and let FF be a (k−1)(k-1)-subset of GG. An affine kk-stress on (∂P∪{G},p)(\partial P\cup\{G\},p) is a stress for the complex obtained by adjoining GG and using the natural embedding pp. Missing-face extension conjecture. There exists such a stress λ\lambda satisfying

λG>0\lambda_G>0

and

λF∪u≤0\lambda_{F\cup u}\leq 0

for every (k−1)(k-1)-face F∪uF\cup u of ∂P\partial P. This conjecture is proposed as a stronger statement implying the stress-sign conjecture, and hence the reconstruction conjectures; it remains open in the stated generality.

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Isabella Novik and Hailun Zheng, “Reconstructing simplicial polytopes from their graphs and affine 2-stresses”, arXiv:2106.09284 (2022).

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