Convex polytopes and linear algebra

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Authors Jonathan Fine

Publication date 1 October 1997

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Multilinear algebra, tensor calculus (15A69) Toric varieties, Newton polyhedra, Okounkov bodies (14M25) Combinatorial properties of polytopes and polyhedra (number of faces, shortest paths, etc.) (52B05) Intersection homology and cohomology in algebraic topology (55N33)

Abstract: This paper defines, for each convex polytope $Delta$, a family $H_{w}Delta$ of vector spaces. The definition uses a combination of linear algebra and combinatorics. When what is called exact calculation holds, the dimension $h_{w}Delta$ of $H_{w}Delta$ is a linear function of the flag vector $fDelta$. It is expected that the $H_{w}Delta$ are examples, for toric varieties, of the new topological invariants introduced by the author in "Local-global intersection homolog" (preprint alg-geom/9709011).

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