Minimal flag triangulations of lower-dimensional manifolds

DOI10.2140/INVOLVE.2020.13.683zbMATH Open1467.05280arXiv1909.03303OpenAlexW3108244364MaRDI QIDQ2036680FDOQ2036680

Hailun Zheng, Ziyi Zhang, Andrew O'Desky, Mengmeng Wang, Shuyang Wang, Christin Bibby

Publication date: 30 June 2021

Published in: Involve (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We prove the following results on flag triangulations of 2- and 3-manifolds. In dimension 2, we prove that the vertex-minimal flag triangulations of $mathbbR{P}^2$ and $mathbb{S}^{1}imesmathbb{S}^1$ have 11 and 12 vertices, respectively. In general, we show that $8+3k$ (resp. $8+4k$) vertices suffice to obtain a flag triangulation of the connected sum of $k$ copies of $mathbbR{P}^2$ (resp. $mathbb{S}^{1}imesmathbb{S}^1$). In dimension 3, we describe an algorithm based on the Lutz-Nevo theorem which provides supporting computational evidence for the following generalization of the Charney-Davis conjecture: for any flag 3-manifold, $$, where $f_i$ is the number of $i$-dimensional faces and $$ is the first Betti number over a field. The conjecture is tight in the sense that for any value of $$, there exists a flag 3-manifold for which the equality holds.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.03303

zbMATH Keywords

flag complexesCharney-Davis conjecturetriangulations of manifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of simplicial complexes (05E45) Triangulating manifolds (57Q15)

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