Embeddability conjecture for skeleta of triangulated complex projective spaces

Let dd be a positive integer, and let KK be a triangulation of the complex projective space d53fPdd53f P^d. Its dd-skeleton is the subcomplex consisting of all simplices of KK of dimension at most dd.

Embeddability conjecture. If d=2k1d=2^k-1 for some k1k\geq 1, then the dd-skeleton of KK is embeddable into R2d\mathbb{R}^{2d}.

This conjecture concerns the exceptional dimensions not ruled out by the Stiefel–Whitney-class obstruction to embedding the dd-skeleton into R2d\mathbb{R}^{2d}. The paper establishes related embeddability results for smooth triangulations, but the stated claim remains open here.

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Daisuke Kishimoto and Takahiro Matsushita, “On the embeddability of skeleta of manifold triangulations”, arXiv:2410.17523 (2025).

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