Neighborly vertex-transitive triangulations of balanced sphere products

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Let dd be the dimension of a triangulation, and let S⌈d/2⌉×S⌊d/2⌋S^{\lceil d/2\rceil}\times S^{\lfloor d/2\rfloor} be the corresponding product of spheres. A centrally (⌊d/2⌋+1)(\lfloor d/2\rfloor+1)-neighborly triangulation is a centrally symmetric triangulation containing the prescribed crosspolytope skeleton, and a vertex-transitive dihedral group action is a dihedral group action transitive on the vertices.

Neighborly sphere-product conjecture. There is a centrally (⌊d/2⌋+1)(\lfloor d/2\rfloor+1)-neighborly combinatorial triangulation of every product S⌈d/2⌉×S⌊d/2⌋S^{\lceil d/2\rceil}\times S^{\lfloor d/2\rfloor} with a vertex-transitive dihedral group action on n=2d+4n=2d+4 vertices.

The source proves existence for a listed finite collection of sphere products, including the balanced products in dimensions represented by the table, but does not establish the assertion for every dd. Thus the general statement remains open.

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Primary source

Frank H. Lutz, “Triangulated Manifolds with Few Vertices: Centrally Symmetric Spheres and Products of Spheres”, arXiv:math/0404465 (2004).

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