Zonotopal Subdivisions of Cyclic Zonotopes
Zonotopal Subdivisions of Cyclic Zonotopes
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2001
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Christos A. Athanasiadis
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作者:
Christos A. Athanasiadis
AbstractThe cyclic zonotope
$$mathcal{Z}$$
(n, d) is the zonotope in
$$mathbb{R}$$
d generated by any n distinct vectors of the form (1, t, t2,..., td−1). It is proved that the refinement poset of all proper zonotopal subdivisions of
$$mathcal{Z}$$
(n, d) which are induced by the canonical projection π:
$$mathcal{Z}$$
(n, d′) →
$$mathcal{Z}$$
(n, d), in the sense of Billera and Sturmfels, is homotopy equivalent to a sphere and that any zonotopal subdivision of
$$mathcal{Z}$$
(n, d) is shellable. The first statement gives an affirmative answer to the generalized Baues problem in a new special case and refines a theorem of Sturmfels and Ziegler on the extension space of an alternating oriented matroid. An important ingredient in the proofs is the fact that all zonotopal subdivisions of
$$mathcal{Z}$$
(n, d) are stackable in a suitable direction. It is shown that, in general, a zonotopal subdivision is stackable in a given direction if and only if a certain associated oriented matroid program is Euclidean, in the sense of Edmonds and Mandel.