Kalai's conjecture on the abundance of neighborly simplicial spheres

Let s(d,n)s(d,n) denote the number of simplicial (d1)(d-1)-spheres with nn labeled vertices, and let sn(d,n)\operatorname{sn}(d,n) denote the number of d/2\lfloor d/2\rfloor-neighborly simplicial (d1)(d-1)-spheres with nn labeled vertices. Kalai's conjecture. For all d4d\geq 4,

limnlogsn(d,n)logs(d,n)=1.\lim_{n\to\infty}\frac{\log \operatorname{sn}(d,n)}{\log s(d,n)}=1.

The conjecture asserts that neighborly simplicial spheres account asymptotically for the logarithmic growth of all simplicial spheres. It is motivated by Shemer's sewing construction and Kalai's proposed abundance principle; the supplied source does not indicate a resolution.

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Primary source

Isabella Novik and Hailun Zheng, “Neighborly spheres and transversal numbers”, arXiv:2208.02071 (2022).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2021–2022). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2104.04476.

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