English

Intersection Bodies of Polytopes

Algebraic Geometry 2025-06-02 v2 Combinatorics Metric Geometry

Abstract

We investigate the intersection body of a convex polytope using tools from combinatorics and real algebraic geometry. In particular, we show that the intersection body of a polytope is always a semialgebraic set and provide an algorithm for its computation. Moreover, we compute the irreducible components of the algebraic boundary and provide an upper bound for the degree of these components.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.2110.05996,
  title  = {Intersection Bodies of Polytopes},
  author = {Katalin Berlow and Marie-Charlotte Brandenburg and Chiara Meroni and Isabelle Shankar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.05996},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

As published in Beitr\"age zur Algebra und Geometrie. Correction of a scaling factor from previous version

R2 v1 2026-06-24T06:49:33.741Z