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An indecomposable polytope all of whose facets are decomposable

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2010

Zeev Smilansky
Affiliation:
Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Givot Ram, 91904 Jerusalem, Israel.
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A (convex) d-polytope is the convex hull of a finite set of points in Euclidean d–space Ed. The (Minkowski) sum of two polytopes P1 and P2 is defined by

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Copyright © University College London 1986

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