Products of abstract polytopes

DOI10.1016/J.JCTA.2018.02.002MaRDI QIDQ1747772zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Ian Gleason, Isabel Hubard

Publication date 27 April 2018

Published in Journal of Combinatorial Theory. Series A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.03585

zbMATH Keywords

abstract polytopesCartesian productdirect sumjoin productmonodromy groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Polyhedra and polytopes; regular figures, division of spaces (51M20) (n)-dimensional polytopes (52B11)

Abstract: Given two convex polytopes, the join, the cartesian product and the direct sum of them are well understood. In this paper we extend these three kinds of products to abstract polytopes and introduce a new product, called the topological product, which also arises in a natural way. We show that these products have unique prime factorization theorems. We use this to compute the automorphism group of a product in terms of the automorphism groups of the factors and show that (non trivial) products are almost never regular or two-orbit polytopes. We finish the paper by studying the monodromy group of a product, show that such a group is always an extension of a symmetric group, and give some examples in which this extension splits.

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