The topological Tverberg sunflower conjecture

Let d1d\geq 1, let r2r\geq 2 be a prime power, and set n=(r1)(d+1)n=(r-1)(d+1). Let N>nN>n, and let ΔN\Delta_N be the NN-dimensional simplex. Topological Tverberg sunflower conjecture. For every continuous map f:ΔNRdf:\Delta_N\to\mathbb{R}^d, there exist rr pairwise disjoint faces F1,,FrF_1,\ldots,F_r of ΔN\Delta_N, and an (n1)(n-1)-dimensional face FF of ΔN\Delta_N, such that for each nn-dimensional face FF' of ΔN\Delta_N containing FF,

i=1rf(FiF).\bigcap_{i=1}^r f(F_i\cap F')\neq\emptyset.

This is posed as an analogue of a Tverberg-sunflower theorem in the topological Tverberg setting, and the supplied source presents it as an open question suggested by Florian Frick.

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Primary source

Minki Kim and Alan Lew, “Extensions of the Colorful Helly Theorem for d-collapsible and d-Leray complexes”, arXiv:2305.12360 (2023).

Additional references

7 papers in this index state this conjecture (2004–2023). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2210.09101, arXiv:2210.07804, arXiv:1805.10237, arXiv:1601.00876, arXiv:1303.7451, arXiv:math/0409081.

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