Nonnegativity conjecture for the second gamma-number of discrete pseudomanifolds

Let MM be a discrete dd-pseudomanifold. Define its second gamma-number, using the numbers f0(M)f_0(M) and f1(M)f_1(M) of vertices and edges, by

γ2(M)=f1(M)(2d1)f0(M)+(d1)(2d+2).\gamma_2(M)=f_1(M)-(2d-1)f_0(M)+(d-1)(2d+2).

Nonnegativity conjecture for discrete pseudomanifolds.

γ2(M)0.\gamma_2(M)\geq 0.

The paper verifies this inequality for every discrete dd-pseudomanifold with at most 2d+72d+7 vertices, based on its classifications, but gives no resolution for arbitrary discrete pseudomanifolds.

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Primary source

Biplab Basak, Debolina Ghosh and Raju Kumar Gupta, “A Complete Classification of Discrete d-Pseudomanifolds with at Most 2d+7 Vertices”, arXiv:2606.29753 (2026).

Additional references

5 papers in this index state this conjecture (2019–2026). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2501.19272, arXiv:2306.09450, arXiv:2006.07704, arXiv:1908.06789.

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