3 papers
math.CO2026
Lower bounds on the -numbers of spheres without large missing faces
Isabella Novik, Hailun Zheng
We establish several new lower bounds on the -numbers of simplicial spheres without large missing faces. For this class of spheres, we derive bounds on the -numbers in terms…
math.CO2026
Simplicial spheres with
Isabella Novik, Hailun Zheng
For , Kalai (1987) characterized all simplicial -spheres with , and for and , Murai and Nevo (2013) characterized all simplicial -…
math.CO2025
Missing faces of neighborly and nearly neighborly polytopes and spheres
Isabella Novik, Hailun Zheng
For a -dimensional simplicial complex and , let be the number of -faces of and be the number of missing -faces of . In th…