Classification of vertex-transitive zonotopes

DOI10.1007/S00454-021-00303-6MaRDI QIDQ2665269zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Martin Winter

Publication date 18 November 2021

Published in Discrete \& Computational Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.10469

zbMATH Keywords

convex polytopespermutahedrareflection groupsroot systemssymmetryvertex-transitivityzonotopes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Reflection groups, reflection geometries (51F15) (n)-dimensional polytopes (52B11) Special polytopes (linear programming, centrally symmetric, etc.) (52B12) Symmetry properties of polytopes (52B15)

Abstract: We give a full classification of vertex-transitive zonotopes. We prove that a vertex-transitive zonotope is a $Gamma$-permutahedron for some finite reflection group $GammasubsetmathrmO(mathbb{R}^d)$. The same holds true for zonotopes in which all vertices are on a common sphere, and all edges are of the same length (which we call homogeneous zonotopes). The classification of these then follows from the classification of finite reflection groups. We proof that root systems can be characterized as those centrally symmetric sets of vectors, for which all intersections with half-spaces, that contain exactly half the vectors, are congruent. We provide a further sufficient condition for a centrally symmetric set being a root system.

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