The boundary complex of the -simplex is a simplicial -sphere
Provedboundary5Simplex_isSimplicialFourSphereLet be the abstract simplicial complex on the six vertices whose faces are exactly the nonempty proper subsets of the vertex set, i.e. the boundary complex of the -simplex. Then the barycentric-coordinate geometric realization of is homeomorphic to the unit sphere
so is a simplicial -sphere.
Concretely, is the set of probability vectors (nonnegative coordinates summing to ) at least one of whose coordinates vanishes, that is, the boundary of the standard -dimensional simplex. Radial projection from the barycentre within the hyperplane , which is -dimensional, identifies this boundary with a -sphere: every ray leaving the barycentre meets the boundary exactly once, and the realization is compact, so the resulting continuous bijection is a homeomorphism.
This provides a concrete simplicial -sphere in the sense used by the mission, the base case for constructions of triangulations of with prescribed full subcomplexes.
Formalization Note The complex is pinned down by the hypothesis that a finite set of vertices is a face if and only if it is nonempty and not the whole vertex set; the conclusion is the existence of a homeomorphism between the realization and the Euclidean unit -sphere.
import Definitions.Def_frame_2026_moment_angle_interfaces open MomentAngle
theorem boundary5Simplex_isSimplicialFourSphere
(L : AbstractSimplicialComplex (Fin 6))
(hL : ∀ σ : Finset (Fin 6), σ ∈ L ↔ (σ.Nonempty ∧ σ ≠ Finset.univ)) :
IsSimplicialFourSphere L := by sorry