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Nested complexes and their polyhedral realizations

Combinatorics 2007-05-23 v4

Abstract

This note which can be viewed as a complement to Alex Postnikov's paper math.CO/0507163, presents a self-contained overview of basic properties of nested complexes and their two dual polyhedral realizations: as complete simplicial fans, and as simple polytopes. Most of the results are not new; our aim is to bring into focus a striking similarity between nested complexes and associated fans and polytopes on one side, and cluster complexes and generalized associahedra introduced and studied in hep-th/0111053, math.CO/0202004, on the other side.

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@article{arxiv.math/0507277,
  title  = {Nested complexes and their polyhedral realizations},
  author = {Andrei Zelevinsky},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0507277},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

v2: 14 pages, 1 figure; historical account in the introduction modified, Section 5 reorganized, Corollary 5.2 supplied with a self-contained proof; v3: minor editorial changes, Proposition 7.2 supplied with a proof; v4: a few typos fixed, one reference updated, final version, to appear in Pure and Applied Mathematics Quarterly