The topological Tverberg sunflower conjecture

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Let d≥1d\geq 1, let r≥2r\geq 2 be a prime power, and set n=(r−1)(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:ΔN→Rdf:\Delta_N\to\mathbb{R}^d, there exist rr pairwise disjoint faces F1,…,FrF_1,\ldots,F_r of ΔN\Delta_N, and an (n−1)(n-1)-dimensional face FF of ΔN\Delta_N, such that for each nn-dimensional face F′F' of ΔN\Delta_N containing FF,

⋂i=1rf(Fi∩F′)≠∅.\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.

References

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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