An upper bound theorem for rational polytopes

DOI10.1006/JCTA.1997.2849MaRDI QIDQ1268610zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Margaret M. Bayer

Publication date 21 July 1999

Published in Journal of Combinatorial Theory. Series A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://semanticscholar.org/paper/9c0748432bb212bef66be5204d1dc9686767c2d5

zbMATH Keywords

\(f\)-vectors\(h\)-vectorsalgebraic combinatorics of convex polytopestoric varietiesupper bound theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial properties of polytopes and polyhedra (number of faces, shortest paths, etc.) (52B05) (n)-dimensional polytopes (52B11) Lattice polytopes in convex geometry (including relations with commutative algebra and algebraic geometry) (52B20)

Review text

This nice note presents a generalization of the well-known inequality \[ h_i(P)-h_{i-1}(P) \leq {n-d+i-2 \choose i}, \quad (0 \leq i \leq d/2) \] in the case of the boundary of simplicial polytopes to the case of rational polytopes (those polytopes that have a coordinatization with rational coordinates for the vertices). In that case \(h(P)\) denotes the so called toric \(h\)-vector [for a short overview on the topic see \textit{L. Billera} and \textit{A. Björner}, in: Handbook of discrete and computational geometry. 291-310 (1997; see the paper above)]. The proof relies on previous work by the author and work by Braden and MacPherson that implies that the \(g\)-polynomial of any quotient of a rational polytope is bounded by the \(g\)-polynomial of the polytope.

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• Bounded remainder polyhedra
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