Zonotopes, dicings, and Voronoi's conjecture on parallelohedra (Q1306931)

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Zonotopes, dicings, and Voronoi's conjecture on parallelohedra
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    Zonotopes, dicings, and Voronoi's conjecture on parallelohedra (English)
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    5 October 1999
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    The author settles a special case of Voronoi's conjecture on parallelohedra, by proving the following theorem: A zonotope which admits a facet-to-facet tiling of Euclidean \(d\)-space by translates is affinely equivalent to the Voronoi polytope of a suitable lattice. He also proves that the Voronoi polytope of a lattice is a zonotope if and only if the corresponding Delaunay tiling is a dicing. The proofs make use of \textit{B. A. Venkov}'s [Vestnik Leningrad. Univ., Ser. Math. Fiz. Him. 9, 11-31 (1954); see also Usp. Mat. Nauk 9, No. 4(62), 250-251 (1954; Zbl 0056.14103)] and \textit{P. McMullen}'s [Mathematika 27, 113-121 (1980; Zbl 0432.52016)] characterization of parallelohedra.
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    parallelotope
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    space-filling polytope
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    zonotope
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    Voronoi-polytope
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    Delaunay tiling
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