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Odd Euler characteristic for flag-no-square four-manifolds

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Kaiwen Jin

We construct a closed connected PL four-manifold with odd Euler characteristic that admits a finite flag-no-square triangulation. Here flag means that every clique is a simplex, and no-square excludes induced four-cycles in the graph. The construction identifies antipodal points on the boundary of a deleted vertex star. In a regular hyperbolic tessellation, each graph edge outside that vertex changes the radial direction by at most $\pi/5$; this prevents the identification from creating a short nonclosing lift. A twisted double makes both the manifold condition and the global flag-no-square property explicit.

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SOLUTION CLAIMED OP-00814 — Odd Euler characteristic for flag-no-square four-manifolds
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Paper
AIM @ 24edaad, paper/odd_euler_flag_no_square.pdf ↗
Posted on GitHub
14 October 2026

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