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An Elementary Proof of Gram's Theorem for Convex Polytopes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

G. C. Shephard
G. C. Shephard*
Affiliation:
University of East Anglia, England
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Let P be a d-polytope (that is, a d-dimensional convex polytope in Euclidean space) and for 0 ≤ j ≤ d – 1 let (i = 1, . . . ,ƒj(P)) represent its j-faces. Associated with each face is a non-negative number ϕ(P, ), to be defined later, which is called the interior angle of P at the face .

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Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 19 , 1967 , pp. 1214 - 1217
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1967

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