A necessary condition for the tightness of odd-dimensional combinatorial manifolds

Abstract

We present a necessary condition for $(\ell -1)$-connected combinatorial $(2\ell +1)$-manifolds to be tight. As a corollary, we show that there is no tight combinatorial three-manifold with Betti number at most two other than the boundary of the four-simplex and the nine-vertex triangulation of the three-dimensional Klein bottle.

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