Lifting properties of maximal lattice-free polyhedra

From MaRDI portal
(Redirected from Publication:896280)




Abstract: We study the uniqueness of minimal liftings of cut-generating functions obtained from maximal lattice-free polyhedra. We prove a basic invariance property of unique minimal liftings for general maximal lattice-free polyhedra. This generalizes a previous result by Basu, Cornu'ejols and K"oppe~cite{bcm} for {em simplicial} maximal lattice-free polytopes, thus completely settling this fundamental question about lifting for maximal lattice-free polyhedra. We further give a very general iterative construction to get maximal lattice-free polyhedra with the unique-lifting property in arbitrary dimensions. This single construction not only obtains all previously known polyhedra with the unique-lifting property, but goes further and vastly expands the known list of such polyhedra. Finally, we extend characterizations from~cite{bcm} about lifting with respect to maximal lattice-free simplices to more general polytopes. These nontrivial generalizations rely on a number of results from discrete geometry, including the Venkov-Alexandrov-McMullen theorem on translative tilings and characterizations of zonotopes in terms of central symmetry of their faces.









This page was built for publication: Lifting properties of maximal lattice-free polyhedra

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q896280)