Minor monotonicity of embeddability in spheres

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Let HH and KK be simplicial complexes, and write H<KH<K when HH is a minor of KK, obtained by admissible contractions and deletions. Let mm be a nonnegative integer. Minor monotonicity of embeddability. If H<KH<K and KK is embeddable in the mm-sphere, then HH is embeddable in the mm-sphere. This would make embeddability in a fixed-dimensional sphere minor-monotone; the source notes that it would imply the preceding obstruction-based corollary, but gives no resolution of the conjecture.

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Eran Nevo, “Higher minors and Van Kampen's obstruction”, arXiv:math/0602531 (2015).

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