A note on geometric embeddings of simplicial complexes in a Euclidean space (Q1971510)

The author considers the question of geometric embeddability in \(\mathbb{R}^m\) of a simplicial complex which is PL embeddable in \(\mathbb{R}^m\). Brehm has constructed a triangulated Möbius strip which possesses no geometric embedding in \(\mathbb{R}^3\) (not even an embedding in which all edges are straight line segments). Higher dimensional counterexamples have been also constructcd by the same author. It is also worth mentioning that Freedman has constructed a 3-dimensional manifold which is topologically embedded in \(\mathbb{R}^4\), but has no triangulation which is geometrically embeddable in \(\mathbb{R}^4\). The van Kampen-Flores theorem gives some implication on the cohomology class of some objects, provided that the simplicial complex \(K\) is embeddable in \(\mathbb{R}^m\). The author proves that some additional conditions hold in case that \(K\) is embedded geometrically in \(\mathbb{R}^m\).