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Almost Simplicial Polytopes: The Lower and Upper Bound Theorems

Part of: Polytopes and polyhedra

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 May 2019

Eran Nevo ,
Guillermo Pineda-Villavicencio ,
Julien Ugon  and
David Yost
Eran Nevo
Affiliation:
Institute of Mathematics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Email: [email protected]
Guillermo Pineda-Villavicencio
Affiliation:
Centre for Informatics and Applied Optimisation, Federation University Australia Email: [email protected]
Julien Ugon
Affiliation:
School of Information Technology, Deakin University, Geelong, Australia Email: [email protected]
David Yost
Affiliation:
Centre for Informatics and Applied Optimisation, Federation University Australia Email: [email protected]
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Abstract

We study $n$-vertex $d$-dimensional polytopes with at most one nonsimplex facet with, say, $d+s$ vertices, called almost simplicial polytopes. We provide tight lower and upper bound theorems for these polytopes as functions of $d,n$, and $s$, thus generalizing the classical Lower Bound Theorem by Barnette and the Upper Bound Theorem by McMullen, which treat the case where $s=0$. We characterize the minimizers and provide examples of maximizers for any $d$. Our construction of maximizers is a generalization of cyclic polytopes, based on a suitable variation of the moment curve, and is of independent interest.

Keywords

polytopesimplicial polytopealmost simplicial polytopeLower Bound theoremUpper Bound theoremgraph rigidityh-vectorf-vector

MSC classification

Primary: 52B05: Combinatorial properties (number of faces, shortest paths, etc.)
Secondary: 52B12: Special polytopes (linear programming, centrally symmetric, etc.) 52B22: Shellability
Type
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Information
Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 72 , Issue 2 , April 2020 , pp. 537 - 556
Copyright
© Canadian Mathematical Society 2018

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Footnotes

Research of E. Nevo was partially supported by Israel Science Foundation grants ISF-805/11 and ISF-1695/15. Research of J. Ugon was supported by ARC discovery project DP180100602.

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