Hom-polytopes

DOI10.1007/S00209-012-1053-5MaRDI QIDQ1944801zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Mark Contois, Joseph Gubeladze, Tristram Bogart

Publication date 28 March 2013

Published in Mathematische Zeitschrift (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1111.3880

zbMATH Keywords

polytopepolygonaffine mapcategory of polytopeshom-polytopevertex map

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial properties of polytopes and polyhedra (number of faces, shortest paths, etc.) (52B05) (n)-dimensional polytopes (52B11) Special polytopes (linear programming, centrally symmetric, etc.) (52B12) Enriched categories (over closed or monoidal categories) (18D20) Software, source code, etc. for problems pertaining to algebraic geometry (14-04)

Abstract: We study the polytopes of affine maps between two polytopes -- the hom-polytopes. The hom-polytope functor has a left adjoint -- tensor product polytopes. The analogy with the category of vector spaces is limited, as we illustrate by a series of explicit examples exhibiting various extremal properties. The main challenge for hom-polytopes is to determine their vertices. A polytopal analogue of the rank-nullity theorem amounts to understanding how the vertex maps behave relative to their surjective and injective factors. This leads to interesting classes of surjective maps. In the last two sections we focus on two opposite extremal cases -- when the source and target polytopes are both polygons and are either generic or regular.

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• OEIS
• polymake
• Macaulay2

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