Shelling and triangulating the (extra)ordinary polytope

dc.creatorBayer, Margaret M.
dc.date2004-04-23
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T05:07:41Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T05:07:41Z
dc.descriptionOrdinary polytopes were introduced by Bisztriczky as a (nonsimplicial) generalization of cyclic polytopes. We show that the colex order of facets of the ordinary polytope is a shelling order. This shelling shares many nice properties with the shellings of simplicial polytopes. We also give a shallow triangulation of the ordinary polytope, and show how the shelling and the triangulation are used to compute the toric h-vector of the ordinary polytope. As one consequence, we get that the contribution from each shelling component to the h-vector is nonnegative. Another consequence is a combinatorial proof that the entries of the h-vector of any ordinary polytope are simple sums of binomial coefficients.
dc.description27 pages
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/math/0404430
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/math/0404430
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/70951
dc.subjectCombinatorics
dc.subject52B22; 52B12
dc.titleShelling and triangulating the (extra)ordinary polytope
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