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Tight triangulations of some 4-manifolds

Geometric Topology 2012-08-30 v2 Combinatorics

Abstract

Walkup's class K(d){\cal K}(d) consists of the dd-dimensional simplicial complexes all whose vertex links are stacked (d1)(d-1)-spheres. According to a result of Walkup, the face vector of any triangulated 4-manifold XX with Euler characteristic χ\chi satisfies f15f015/2χf_1 \geq 5f_0 - 15/2 \chi, with equality only for XK(4)X \in {\cal K}(4). K\"{u}hnel observed that this implies f0(f011)15χf_0(f_0 - 11) \geq -15\chi, with equality only for 2-neighborly members of K(4){\cal K}(4). For n=6,11n = 6, 11 and 15, there are triangulated 4-manifolds with f0=nf_0=n and f0(f011)=15χf_0(f_0 - 11) = -15\chi. In this article, we present triangulated 4-manifolds with f0=21,26f_0 = 21, 26 and 41 which satisfy f0(f011)=15χf_0(f_0 - 11) = -15\chi. All these triangulated manifolds are tight and strongly minimal.

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@article{arxiv.1207.6182,
  title  = {Tight triangulations of some 4-manifolds},
  author = {Basudeb Datta and Nitin Singh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1207.6182},
  year   = {2012}
}

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