Even- vs. odd-dimensional Charney-Davis conjecture

DOI10.1007/S00454-009-9210-2MaRDI QIDQ603867zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Światosław R. Gal, Tadeusz Januszkiewicz

Publication date 8 November 2010

Published in Discrete \& Computational Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0905.1961

zbMATH Keywords

flag complex\(h\)-vectorCharney-Davis conjecture

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

(n)-dimensional polytopes (52B11) Combinatorics of partially ordered sets (06A07) Polyhedral manifolds (52B70)

Abstract: More than once we have heard that the Charney-Davis Conjecture makes sense only for odd-dimensional spheres. This is to point out that in fact it is also a statement about even-dimensional spheres.

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Cites work

• Real root conjecture fails for five- and higher-dimensional spheres
• The Euler characteristic of a nonpositively curved, piecewise Euclidean manifold
• The geometry and topology of Coxeter groups.

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• Many faces of symmetric edge polytopes
• Combinatorics and Algebra of Geometric Subdivision Operations
• Trung's construction and the Charney-Davis conjecture
• The Charney-Davis conjecture for certain subdivisions of spheres

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