A pithy look at the Polytope Algebra
Combinatorics
2021-11-05 v1
Abstract
This is a hands on introduction to McMullen's Polytope Algebra. More than interesting on its own, this algebra was McMullen's tool to give a combinatorial proof of the g-theorem.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.2111.02820,
title = {A pithy look at the Polytope Algebra},
author = {Federico Castillo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.02820},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
14 pages; In the proceedings of the 2018 Summer Workshop on Lattice Polytopes at Osaka University