The wedge-of-spheres conjecture for path-free complexes of complete multipartite graphs

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Let G=Kn1,…,nrG=K_{n_1,\ldots,n_r} be a complete multipartite graph, and let t≥2t\geq 2. The path-free complex PF⁡t(G)\operatorname{PF}_t(G) is the simplicial complex whose faces avoid paths of length tt in GG.

Wedge-of-spheres conjecture. The complex PF⁡t(G)\operatorname{PF}_t(G) is homotopy equivalent to a wedge of spheres.

The preceding cases establish this homotopy type for the values of tt treated in the paper, and the conjecture proposes the same conclusion for every t≥2t\geq 2. Determining the number and dimensions of the spheres in general remains open.

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Priyavrat Deshpande, Shuchita Goyal and Rutuja Sawant, “On a complete characterization of path-free complexes associated with complete multipartite graphs”, arXiv:2607.05358 (2026).

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