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The rings of n-dimensional polytopes

Metric Geometry 2010-06-29 v1

Abstract

Points of an orbit of a finite Coxeter group G, generated by n reflections starting from a single seed point, are considered as vertices of a polytope (G-polytope) centered at the origin of a real n-dimensional Euclidean space. A general efficient method is recalled for the geometric description of G- polytopes, their faces of all dimensions and their adjacencies. Products and symmetrized powers of G-polytopes are introduced and their decomposition into the sums of G-polytopes is described. Several invariants of G-polytopes are found, namely the analogs of Dynkin indices of degrees 2 and 4, anomaly numbers and congruence classes of the polytopes. The definitions apply to crystallographic and non-crystallographic Coxeter groups. Examples and applications are shown.

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@article{arxiv.0901.4686,
  title  = {The rings of n-dimensional polytopes},
  author = {L. Hakova and M. Larouche and J. Patera},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0901.4686},
  year   = {2010}
}

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24 pages