Polytopal linear algebra

zbMATH Open1040.14023arXivmath/0002024MaRDI QIDQ1856595FDOQ1856595

Authors: Winfried Bruns, Joseph Gubeladze 

Publication date: 10 February 2003

Published in: Beiträge zur Algebra und Geometrie (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We investigate similarities between the category of vector spaces and that of polytopal algebras, containing the former as a full subcategory. In Section 2 we introduce the notion of a polytopal Picard group and show that it is trivial for fields. The coincidence of this group with the ordinary Picard group for general rings remains an open question. In Section 3 we survey some of the previous results on the automorphism groups and retractions. These results support a general conjecture proposed in Section 4 about the nature of arbitrary homomorphisms of polytopal algebras. Thereafter a further confirmation of this conjecture is presented by homomorphisms defined on Veronese singularities. This is a continuation of the project started in our papers "Polytopal linear groups" (J. Algebra 218 (1999), 715--737), "Polytopal linear retractions" preprint, math.AG/0001049) and "Polyhedral algebras, arrangements of toric varieties, and their groups" (preprint, http://www.mathematik.uni-osnabrueck.de/K-theory/0232/index.html). The higher $K$-theoretic aspects of polytopal linear objects will be treated in "Polyhedral $K$-theory" (in preparation).

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0002024

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zbMATH Keywords

Picard grouppolytopal algebra

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Toric varieties, Newton polyhedra, Okounkov bodies (14M25) Lattice polytopes in convex geometry (including relations with commutative algebra and algebraic geometry) (52B20) Varieties and morphisms (14A10) Abelian categories, Grothendieck categories (18E10) Picard groups (14C22)

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