Existence of continuous maps from \(d\)-spheres \((d \geq 1)\) to its various triangulations having the disjoint support property (Q2140626)

The disjoint support property in the title means that a continuous map \(h\) from the \(d\)-sphere \(S^d\) to a triangulated \(d\)-sphere \(\Sigma^d\) satisfies: For any two antipodal points \(x,-x\in S^d\) the images \(h(x)\), \(h(-x)\) are contained in two disjoint faces of the triangulation. For \(\Sigma^d=\partial\Delta^{d+1}\) such maps exist but no homeomorphism. The central projection from \(S^d\) onto the boundary of the \((d+1)\)-dimensional cross polytope = the convex hull of \((1,0,\dots,0),\dots,(0,0,\dots,1)\in \mathbb{R}^{d+1}\) provides an example of such a homeomorphism. In general, it seems that the central projection from \(S^d\) onto the boundary of any centrally symmetric \((d+1)\)-polytope (simplicial or not) has the disjoint support property. On the other hand for any \(d\) the authors construct a triangulated \(\Sigma^d\) such that there is such a map \(h\) but no homeomorphism. These examples are based on iterated suspensions of certain stacked \(3\)-polytopes presented in a previous article by the first two authors [Period. Math. Hung. 83, No. 1, 20--31 (2021; Zbl 1488.52017)].