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Polytopes are the basic finite data structures for convex sets: they appear as feasible regions in linear optimization, as geometric summaries in algorithms, and as random objects in stochastic geometry. A natural geometric question is…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Steven Hoehner

Symmetric edge polytopes are lattice polytopes associated with finite simple graphs that are of interest in both theory and applications. We investigate the facet structure of symmetric edge polytopes for various models of random graphs.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-02-14 Benjamin Braun , Kaitlin Bruegge , Matthew Kahle

We study the slices or sections of a convex polytope by affine hyperplanes. We present results on two key problems: First, we provide tight bounds on the maximum number of vertices attainable by a hyperplane slice of $d$-polytope (a sort of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-24 Jesús A. De Loera , Gyivan Lopez-Campos , Antonio J. Torres

A shadow of a geometric object $A$ in a given direction $v$ is the orthogonal projection of $A$ on the hyperplane orthogonal to $v$. We show that any topological embedding of a circle into Euclidean $d$-space can have at most two shadows…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2017-06-09 Michael Gene Dobbins , Heuna Kim , Luis Montejano , Edgardo Roldán-Pensado

We present the shape of the black hole shadow on the standard background screen as it is registered by the distant observer. The screen is an infinite plane, emitting the quanta uniformly distributed to a hemisphere. The source of emission…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-02-14 Serge V. Repin , Dmitry A. Kompaneets , Igor D. Novikov , Valeriya A. Mityagina

Shadows are essential for realistic image compositing. Physics-based shadow rendering methods require 3D geometries, which are not always available. Deep learning-based shadow synthesis methods learn a mapping from the light information to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Yichen Sheng , Yifan Liu , Jianming Zhang , Wei Yin , A. Cengiz Oztireli , He Zhang , Zhe Lin , Eli Shechtman , Bedrich Benes

For a $d$-dimensional polytope with $v$ vertices, $d+1\le v\le2d$, we calculate precisely the minimum possible number of $m$-dimensional faces, when $m=1$ or $m\ge0.62d$. This confirms a conjecture of Gr\"unbaum, for these values of $m$.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-01-17 Guillermo Pineda-Villavicencio , Julien Ugon , David Yost

Light scattering from self-affine homogeneous isotropic random rough surfaces is studied using the ray-optics approximation. Numerical methods are developed to accelerate the first-order scattering simulations from surfaces represented as…

Optics · Physics 2020-10-09 Hannu Parviainen , Karri Muinonen

The diameter of the graph of a $d$-dimensional lattice polytope $P \subseteq [0,k]^{n}$ is known to be at most $dk$ due to work by Kleinschmidt and Onn. However, it is an open question whether the monotone diameter, the shortest guaranteed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-21 Alexander E. Black

We study the complexity of computing the projection of an arbitrary $d$-polytope along $k$ orthogonal vectors for various input and output forms. We show that if $d$ and $k$ are part of the input (i.e. not a constant) and we are interested…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2012-11-26 Hans Raj Tiwary

Over some types of trees with a given number of vertices, which trees minimize or maximize the total number of subtrees or leaf containing subtrees are studied. Here are some of the main results:\ (1)\, Sharp upper bound on the total number…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-06-15 Shuchao Li , Shujing Wang

We prove a sharp bound for the remainder term of the number of lattice points inside a ball, when averaging over a compact set of (not necessarily unimodular) lattices, in dimensions two and three. We also prove that such a bound cannot…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2013-11-13 Samuel Holmin

The combinatorial diameter $\operatorname{diam}(P)$ of a polytope $P$ is the maximum shortest path distance between any pair of vertices. In this paper, we provide upper and lower bounds on the combinatorial diameter of a random "spherical"…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-12-28 Gilles Bonnet , Daniel Dadush , Uri Grupel , Sophie Huiberts , Galyna Livshyts

This paper is devoted to the study of lower and upper bounds for the number of vertices of the polytope of $n\times n\times n$ stochastic tensors (i.e., triply stochastic arrays of dimension $n$). By using known results on polytopes (i.e.,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-02-15 Zhongshan Li , Fuzhen Zhang , Xiao-Dong Zhang

Suppose that a finite-dimensional cube is orthogonally projected onto a central section of itself by a subspace of one dimension less. Up to dimension $9$, at least one vertex is projected onto the section, but for dimension $10$ or larger,…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-13 Yossi Lonke

The problem of calculating exact lower bounds for the number of $k$-faces of $d$-polytopes with $n$ vertices, for each value of $k$, and characterising the minimisers, has recently been solved for $n\le2d$. We establish the corresponding…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-07-26 Guillermo Pineda-Villavicencio , David Yost

A polytope is inscribable if there is a realization where all vertices lie on the sphere. In this paper, we provide a necessary and sufficient condition for a polytope to be inscribable. Based on this condition, we characterize the problem…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Yiwen Chen , João Gouveia , Warren Hare , Amy Wiebe

We show that there are simplex pivoting rules for which it is PSPACE-complete to tell if a particular basis will appear on the algorithm's path. Such rules cannot be the basis of a strongly polynomial algorithm, unless P = PSPACE. We…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-04-15 Ilan Adler , Christos Papadimitriou , Aviad Rubinstein

We give a sharp upper bound on the multiplicity of a fake weighted projective space with at worst canonical singularities. This is equivalent to giving a sharp upper bound on the index of the sublattice generated by the vertices of a…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2021-05-21 Gennadiy Averkov , Alexander Kasprzyk , Martin Lehmann , Benjamin Nill

We give a brief review on the formation and the calculation of black hole shadow. Firstly, we introduce the conception of black hole shadow and the current works on a variety of black hole shadows. Secondly, we present main methods of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-11 Mingzhi Wang , Songbai Chen , Jiliang Jing