Cubillages in odd dimensions (Q2199856): Difference between revisions

Let \(\xi_1,\ldots,\xi_n \in \mathbb{R}^d\) be \(n \ge d\) vectors in general position, and let \(Z \subseteq \mathbb{R}^d\) be the zonotope generated by \(\xi_1,\ldots,\xi_n\); i.e., \(Z\) is the Minkowski sum of the segments \([0,\xi_i]\), \(i=1,\dots,n\). A cubillage \(Q\) is a face-to-face tiling of \(Z\) by translates of parallelotopes, each spanned by \(d\) of the vectors \(\xi_1,\dots,\xi_n\). Each vertex of (a member of) \(Q\) is a sum of some of \(\xi_1,\dots,\xi_n\), so it is encoded as a subset of \([n]=\{1,\dots,n\}\). Then \(Q\) corresponds to a subfamily of \(2^{[n]}\), that is called the spectrum of \(Q\). The authors discuss in particular combinatorial properties of cubillages related to their spectra. A special emphasis is on geometric and combinatorial separation properties.