Strongly self-dual polytopes
Abstract
This article aims to study the class of strongly self-dual polytopes (ssd-polytopes for short), defined in a paper by Lov\'asz \cite{lovasz}. He described a series of such polytopes (called -type polytopes), which he used to solve a combinatorial problem. From a geometrical point of view, there are interesting questions: what additional elements of this class exist, and are there any with a different structure from the -type ones? We show that in dimension three, one of their faces defines -type polyhedra. Illustrating the algorithm of the proof, we present an ssd-polytope of 23 vertices whose combinatorial structure differ from those of -type ones. Finally, with an elementary discussion, we prove that for fewer than nine vertices, there are only fifth one ssd-polyhedra, four of them can be constructed by Lov\'asz's method, and we can find the fifth one with "the diameter gradient flow algorithm" of Katz, Memoli and Wang \cite{katz-memoli-wang}.
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@article{arxiv.2501.16121,
title = {Strongly self-dual polytopes},
author = {Ákos G. Horváth and István Prok},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.16121},
year = {2025}
}
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21 pages, 19 figures