Non-existence of tight neighborly triangulated manifolds with \(\beta_{1} = 2\) (Q2252855)

A triangulation of a \(d\)-manifold is called tight neighborly if the number of vertices \({f}_{0}\) in the triangulation satisfies the equation \(\binom {f_0-d-1}{2}=\binom{d+2}{2}\beta_1\). This concept was introduced by Lutz, Sulanke and Swartz. In the present article the author shows that there does not exist any tight neighborly triangulated manifold with \(\beta_1\) = 2. However for each \(d \geq 3\) and \(\beta_1\) = 1, \((2d+3)\)-vertex tight neighborly triangulated \(d\)-manifolds were constructed by Kühnel in 1986, but for \(\beta_1\) = 2 no such triangulations exist as is shown in the current article. It has also been proved that for \(d \geq 4\) if \(M\) is a triangulated \(d\)-manifold with \(2d+3\) vertices and \(\beta_1(M, \mathsf{Z}_2)\neq 0\) then \( M \cong K_{(2d+3)}^d \) (Kühnel's torus).