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(Eran Nevo) The g-Conjecture II: The Commutative Algebra Connection
Richard Stanley This post is authored by Eran Nevo. (It is the second in a series of five posts.) The g-conjecture: the commutative algebra connection Let be a triangulation of a -dimensional sphere. Stanley’s idea was to associate with a ring … Continue reading
How the g-Conjecture Came About
This post complements Eran Nevo’s first post on the -conjecture 1) Euler’s theorem Euler Euler’s famous formula for the numbers of vertices, edges and faces of a polytope in space is the starting point of many mathematical stories. (Descartes came close … Continue reading
(Eran Nevo) The g-Conjecture I
This post is authored by Eran Nevo. (It is the first in a series of five posts.) Peter McMullen The g-conjecture What are the possible face numbers of triangulations of spheres? There is only one zero-dimensional sphere and it consists … Continue reading
Posted in Combinatorics, Convex polytopes, Guest blogger, Open problems
Tagged face rings, g-conjecture, Polytopes
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Ziegler´s Lecture on the Associahedron
The associahedron in 3 dimension, and James Stasheff. This picture is taken from Bill Casselman’s article on the associahedron. The article is entitled “Strange Associations” and starts with ”There are many other polytopes that can be described in purely combinatorial terms. Among the … Continue reading
Posted in Convex polytopes
Tagged Associahedron, Cyclohedron, Permutahedron, Permuto-associahedron
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Telling a Simple Polytope From its Graph
Peter Mani (a photograph by Emo Welzl) Simple polytopes, puzzles Micha A. Perles conjectured in the ’70s that the graph of a simple -polytope determines the entire combinatorial structure of the polytope. This conjecture was proved in 1987 by Blind … Continue reading
Posted in Convex polytopes, Open problems
Tagged Eric Friedman, Peter Mani, Roswitta Blind
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A Diameter problem (7): The Best Known Bound
Our Diameter problem for families of sets Consider a family of subsets of size d of the set N={1,2,…,n}. Associate to a graph as follows: The vertices of are simply the sets in . Two vertices and are adjacent if . … Continue reading
A Diameter Problem (6): Abstract Objective Functions
George Dantzig and Leonid Khachyan In this part we will not progress on the diameter problem that we discussed in the earlier posts but will rather describe a closely related problem for directed graphs associated with ordered families of sets. The role models for … Continue reading
Posted in Combinatorics, Convex polytopes, Open problems
Tagged Hirsch conjecture, Linear programming
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A Diameter Problem (5)
6. First subexponential bounds. Proposition 1: How to prove it: This is easy to prove: Given two sets and in our family , we first find a path of the form where, and . We let with and consider the family … Continue reading
Diameter Problem (4)
Let us consider another strategy to deal with our diameter problem. Let us try to associate other graphs to our family of sets. Recall that we consider a family of subsets of size of the set . Let us now associate … Continue reading
Diameter Problem (3)
3. What we will do in this post and and in future posts We will now try all sorts of ideas to give good upper bounds for the abstract diameter problem that we described. As we explained, such bounds apply … Continue reading
Posted in Combinatorics, Convex polytopes, Open problems
Tagged Hirsch conjecture, Linear programming, Quasi-automated proofs
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