Webs of stars or how to triangulate free sums of point configurations (Q725000): Difference between revisions

If $P\subseteq\mathbb{R}^d$ and $Q\subseteq\mathbb{R}^e$ are finite point sets containing the origin as a point that lies in the interior of the convex hull, the free sum $P\oplus Q$ of $P$ and $Q$ is the finite point set in $\mathbb{R}^{d+e}$ defined as the union of $P\times\{0\}$ and $\{0\}\times Q$. The paper classifies the triangulations of free sums $P\oplus Q$ in terms of the triangulations of the summands $P$ and $Q$. As a case study, the methods are applied to triangulations of point sets associated with the vertex-sets of smooth Fano polytopes.