On Walkup's class K(d) and a minimal triangulation of (S^390\(}S^1)^{\#3}\)

DOI10.1016/J.DISC.2011.02.032MaRDI QIDQ536224zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Bhaskar Bagchi, Basudeb Datta

Publication date 16 May 2011

Published in Discrete Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0804.2153

zbMATH Keywords

combinatorial manifoldstacked polytopetight triangulationWalkup's class

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

(n)-dimensional polytopes (52B11) Polyhedral manifolds (52B70) Triangulating manifolds (57Q15)

Abstract: For $dgeq2$, Walkup's class $calK(d)$ consists of the $d$-dimensional simplicial complexes all whose vertex-links are stacked $(d-1)$-spheres. Kalai showed that for $dgeq4$, all connected members of $calK(d)$ are obtained from stacked $d$-spheres by finitely many elementary handle additions. According to a result of Walkup, the face vector of any triangulated 4-manifold $X$ with Euler characteristic $chi$ satisfies $f_{1}geq5f_0-15/2chi$, with equality only for $XincalK(4)$. K"{u}hnel observed that this implies $f_0(f_0-11)geq-15chi$, with equality only for 2-neighborly members of $calK(4)$. K"{u}hnel also asked if there is a triangulated 4-manifold with $f_0=15$, $chi=-4$ (attaining equality in his lower bound). In this paper, guided by Kalai's theorem, we show that indeed there is such a triangulation. It triangulates the connected sum of three copies of the twisted sphere product $S^{3}imes{-2.8mm}_{-}{S}^1$. Because of K"{u}hnel's inequality, the given triangulation of this manifold is a vertex-minimal triangulation. By a recent result of Effenberger, the triangulation constructed here is tight. Apart from the neighborly 2-manifolds and the infinite family of $(2d+3)$-vertex sphere products $S^{d-1}imes{S}^1$ (twisted for $d$ odd), only fourteen tight triangulated manifolds were known so far. The present construction yields a new member of this sporadic family. We also present a self-contained proof of Kalai's result.

Review text

The authors present an interesting example of a 15-vertex triangulation of a 4-manifold with \(\chi= -4\). This satisfies equality in Walkup's inequality \(n\,(n- 11)\geq -15\chi\). Another example is an 11-vertex triangulation of \(S^1\times S^3\). A stronger inequality in this context is \({n-6\choose 2}\geq {6\choose 2}\beta_1\), where \(\beta_1\) denotes the first Betti number. The example shows that there are more instances of equality, so these inequalities are sharp in principle. Moreover, this triangulation is a tight triangulation, as recently shown by \textit{F. Effenberger} in [J. Comb. Theory, Ser. A 118, No. 6, 1843--1862 (2011; Zbl 1282.52015)]. In fact, any 2-neighborly member of Walkup's class \({\mathcal K}(d)\) is tight for \(d\geq 4\). The construction of the example follows the definition of Walkup's class: Start with a certain triangulated 5-stacked ball with 30 vertices. Then identify three pairs of appropriate 4-dimensional simplices of the boundary.

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