The flag polynomial of the Minkowski sum of simplices

DOI10.1007/S00026-013-0189-2zbMATH Open1272.05005arXiv1006.5928OpenAlexW2068300765MaRDI QIDQ368451FDOQ368451

Geir Agnarsson

Publication date: 23 September 2013

Published in: Annals of Combinatorics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: For a polytope we define the {em flag polynomial}, a polynomial in commuting variables related to the well-known flag vector and describe how to express the the flag polynomial of the Minkowski sum of $k$ standard simplices in a direct and canonical way in terms of the {em $k$-th master polytope} $P(k)$ where $kinats$. The flag polynomial facilitates many direct computations. To demonstrate this we provide two examples; we first derive a formula for the $f$-polynomial and the maximum number of $d$-dimensional faces of the Minkowski sum of two simplices. We then compute the maximum discrepancy between the number of $(0,d)$-chains of faces of a Minkowski sum of two simplices and the number of such chains of faces of a simple polytope of the same dimension and on the same number of vertices.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1006.5928

zbMATH Keywords

polytopeMinkowski sum\(f\)-polynomialflag polynomialmaster polytope

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exact enumeration problems, generating functions (05A15) Combinatorial properties of polytopes and polyhedra (number of faces, shortest paths, etc.) (52B05) (n)-dimensional polytopes (52B11) Asymptotic enumeration (05A16)

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• polymake

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