Missing-face extension conjecture for affine stresses

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Let PRdP\subseteq \mathbb R^d be a simplicial polytope of dimension d2k1d\geq 2k-1, with k2k\geq 2. Let GG be a missing (k1)(k-1)-face of P\partial P, and let FF be a (k1)(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

λFu0\lambda_{F\cup u}\leq 0

for every (k1)(k-1)-face FuF\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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