Affine stress support conjecture for spheres without large missing faces

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Let 2≤i≤d/22\leq i\leq d/2, let Δ∈S(d−i,d−1)\Delta\in S(d-i,d-1), and let pp be a generic or natural embedding of Δ\Delta in Rd\mathbb{R}^d. An affine ii-stress is an element of the affine stress space of (Δ,p)(\Delta,p). Affine stress support conjecture. Every (i−1)(i-1)-face of Δ\Delta participates in some affine ii-stress on (Δ,p)(\Delta,p).

The paper states that this conjecture is disproved, so it is false in the stated generality.

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Isabella Novik and Hailun Zheng, “Lower bounds on the g-numbers of spheres without large missing faces”, arXiv:2604.16905 (2026).

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