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On The Number of Faces of a Convex Polytope

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

David Gale
David Gale*
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Brown University Providence, Rhode Island
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The following problem is as yet unsolved: Given a convex polytope with N vertices in n-space, what is the maximum number of (n — 1)-faces which it can have? Aside from its geometric interest this question arises in connection with solving systems of linear inequalities and linear equations in non-negative variables. The problem is equivalent to asking for the best bound on the number of basic solutions for such problems and hence a bound (though a weak one) for the number of iterations needed in the simplex method for solving linear programmes.

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Research Article
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Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 16 , 1964 , pp. 12 - 17
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1964

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