Parallelohedra defined by quadratic forms

DOI10.1134/S008154381501006XMaRDI QIDQ492206zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Viacheslav Grishukhin

Publication date 20 August 2015

Published in Proceedings of the Steklov Institute of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1134/S008154381501006X

zbMATH Keywords

parallelohedronpolytopequadratic formscalar productVenkov's conditionsVoronoi cell

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lattices and convex bodies (number-theoretic aspects) (11H06) Special polytopes (linear programming, centrally symmetric, etc.) (52B12) Tilings in (n) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C22)

Review text

The author presents the results of Section III, which is titled Determination of parallelohedra with the help of positive quadratic forms, of \textit{G. Voronoï}'s famous memoir [J. Reine Angew. Math. 134, 198--287 (1908; JFM 39.0274.01)] and [ibid. 136, 67--178 (1909; JFM 40.0267.17)] in modern terms. Among the most interesting contributions of the paper under review we mention a new proof of the fact that the polytope \(P(a)=\{x\in \mathbb R^n:\langle p, x\rangle \leq a(p), p\in\mathcal P\}\), where \(\langle p, x\rangle\) is the scalar product of vectors \(p,q\in \mathbb R^n\), \(a\) is a quadratic form, and \(\mathcal P\) is the set of so-called normal vectors, is a parallelohedron if and only if the following two conditions are satisfied: (1) \(P\) and all its facets are centrally symmetric and (2) \(P\) has only 4- and 6-belts. The author calls the conditions (1) and (2) Venkov's conditions because they appeared in [\textit{B.A. Venkov}, ``On a class of Euclidean polytopes, Vestnik Leningrad. Univ., Ser. Math. Fiz. Him. 9, 11--31 (1954); see also Usp. Mat. Nauk 9, No.4, 250--251 (1954; Zbl 0056.14103)] for the first time and independently in [\textit{P. McMullen}, Mathematika 27, 113--121 (1980; Zbl 0432.52016)]. For zonotopes defined by quadratic forms, the author studies in detail the Voronoi's principal domain and shows that these parallelohedra are submodular polytopes.

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