Many projectively unique polytopes

DOI10.1007/S00222-014-0519-YzbMATH Open1339.52011arXiv1212.5812OpenAlexW2068488136MaRDI QIDQ2017450FDOQ2017450

Authors: Karim Adiprasito, Günter M. Ziegler 

Publication date: 23 March 2015

Published in: Inventiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We construct an infinite family of 4-polytopes whose realization spaces have dimension smaller or equal to 96. This in particular settles a problem going back to Legendre and Steinitz: whether and how the dimension of the realization space of a polytope is determined/bounded by its f-vector. From this, we derive an infinite family of combinatorially distinct 69-dimensional polytopes whose realization is unique up to projective transformation. This answers a problem posed by Perles and Shephard in the sixties. Moreover, our methods naturally lead to several interesting classes of projectively unique polytopes, among them projectively unique polytopes inscribed to the sphere. The proofs rely on a novel construction technique for polytopes based on solving Cauchy problems for discrete conjugate nets in S^d, a new Alexandrov--van Heijenoort Theorem for manifolds with boundary and a generalization of Lawrence's extension technique for point configurations.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1212.5812

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zbMATH Keywords

polytopescross-bedding cubical toriLawrence extensionsprojectively unique polytopesrealization space of polytopes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial properties of polytopes and polyhedra (number of faces, shortest paths, etc.) (52B05) (n)-dimensional polytopes (52B11) Special polytopes (linear programming, centrally symmetric, etc.) (52B12) Matroids in convex geometry (realizations in the context of convex polytopes, convexity in combinatorial structures, etc.) (52B40) Polyhedral manifolds (52B70)

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