Generalized Dehn-Sommerville relations for polytopes, spheres and Eulerian partially ordered sets (Q796110): Difference between revisions

In this paper we generalize the Dehn-Sommerville equations to the cases of completely balanced sphere and Eulerian poset complexes. For such complexes, we consider an extension of the usual notion of f-vector, counting the number of faces having a prescribed label set. In the case of poset complexes, this is equivalent to counting the number of chains having elements of prescribed ranks. In each case we determine the affine span of the extended f-vectors of the class of objects. The result for Eulerian posets also gives the affine span of the extended f-vectors of convex polytopes. For d-polytopes, the dimension of this affine span is given by the d-th Fibonacci number.