Constructing infinite-dimensional polytopes using Gale transforms

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Authors Graham R. Wood, Stephen McDowall, Peter Kleinschmidt

Publication date 3 January 2000

Published in Southeast Asian Bulletin of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

\(\alpha \)-polytopeaffine dependencecompact convex setGale transform

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Convex sets in topological linear spaces; Choquet theory (46A55) Convex sets in topological vector spaces (aspects of convex geometry) (52A07) Gale and other diagrams (52B35)

Review text

The infinite dimensional analogue of the Gale transform may be defined in a natural way for compact convex subsets of a Banach space with countably many extreme points such that the linear space of affine dependencies is finite-dimensional (so-called \(\alpha \)-polytopes). This paper describes the construction of an \(\alpha \)-polytope with a given Gale transform. This process depends critically on the construction of a ``Gale basis. Since the Gale transform contains only algebraic information about the polytope, a single transform can give rise to topologically distinct polytopes. This is illustrated by a concrete example.

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