A Short Proof of Euler’s Relation for Convex Polytopes (Q4384056)
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1143907
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1143907 |
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A Short Proof of Euler’s Relation for Convex Polytopes (English)
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20 April 1998
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oriented matroid polytopes
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arrangement of hyperplanes
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Euler relation
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Euler characteristic
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0.7938936948776245
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0.7767881751060486
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The author continues the list of short and elegant proofs of the known Euler relation \[ f_0- f_1+ f_2-\dots+ (-1)^{d-1} f_{d-1}= 1-(-1)^d, \] which refers to the numbers \(f_i\) of \(i\)-dimensional faces of a convex \(d\)-polytope, \(i=0,1,\dots, d-1\). His approach is based on the principle of inclusion and exclusion of combinatorics and on the Euler characteristic, and it resembles a proof due to W. Nef. Also the author presents a list of references related to other approaches and to the Euler characteristic in a more general sense.
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