Lectures on Polytopes:
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Main Author: Ziegler, Günter M. 1963- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York ; Heidelberg ; Dordrecht ; London Springer 2007
Edition:Updated seventh printing of the first edition
Series:Graduate texts in mathematics 152
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Online Access:DE-188
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Item Description:Based on a graduate course given at the Technische Universität, Berlin, these lectures present a wealth of material on the modern theory of convex polytopes. The clear and straightforward presentation features many illustrations, and provides complete proofs for most theorems. The material requires only linear algebra as a prerequisite, but takes the reader quickly from the basics to topics of recent research, including a number of unanswered questions. The lectures introduce the basic facts about polytopes, with an emphasis on the methods that yield the results (Fourier-Motzkin elimination, Schlegel diagrams, shellability, Gale transforms, and oriented matroids), discuss important examples and elegant constructions (cyclic and neighborly polytopes, zonotopes, Minkowski sums, permutahedra and associhedra, fiber polytopes, and the Lawrence construction), show the excitement of current work in the field (Kalai's new diameter bounds, construction of non-rational polytopes, the Bohne-Dress tiling theorem, the upper-bound theorem), and nonextendable shellings)
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 373 Seiten) Illustrationen
ISBN:9781461384311
DOI:10.1007/978-1-4613-8431-1

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