The Cayley Trick, lifting subdivisions and the Bohne-Dress theorem on zonotopal tilings
In 1994, Sturmfels gave a polyhedral version of the Cayley Trick of elimination theory: he established an order-preserving bijection between the posets of coherent mixed subdivisions of a Minkowski sum ?1+...+? r of point configurations and of coherent polyhedral subdivisions of the associated Cayle...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2000 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad de Cantabria (UC) |
| Repositorio: | UCrea Repositorio Abierto de la Universidad de Cantabria |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:repositorio.unican.es:10902/2585 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10902/2585 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Polyhedral subdivision Fiber polytope Mixed subdivision Lifting subdivision Minkowski sum Cayley Trick Bohne-Dress Theorem |
| Sumario: | In 1994, Sturmfels gave a polyhedral version of the Cayley Trick of elimination theory: he established an order-preserving bijection between the posets of coherent mixed subdivisions of a Minkowski sum ?1+...+? r of point configurations and of coherent polyhedral subdivisions of the associated Cayley embedding ?(?1,...,? r ). In this paper we extend this correspondence in a natural way to cover also non-coherent subdivisions. As an application, we show that the Cayley Trick combined with results of Santos on subdivisions of Lawrence polytopes provides a new independent proof of the Bohne-Dress theorem on zonotopal tilings. This application uses a combinatorial characterization of lifting subdivisions, also originally proved by Santos. |
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