On polytopes that are simple at the edges (Q5959533)

The author investigates \(d\)-polytopes with the following properties: they are simple at their edges, meaning that each edge belongs to \(d-1\) facets, and non-simple vertices are infrequent, in that no facet contains two of them. Such polytopes are shown here to satisfy the generalized \(h\)-vector inequalities \[ h_{[d/2]}\geq h_{[d/2]+1}\geq\cdots\geq h_d, \] conjectured by \textit{R. Stanley} [Adv. Stud. Pure Math. 11, 187-213 (1987; Zbl 0652.52007)] to hold for all polytopes. (Reviewer's remark: the claim of Ishida, mentioned in a footnote, to have proved Stanley's conjecture completely, has more recently been withdrawn).