Questions tagged [abstract-polytopes]
An "abstract polytope" is a poset satisfying a list of properties shared by face lattices of polytopes.
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What's the best way to test if a sphere is a polytope? (algorithms for the Simplicial Steinitz Problem)
The problem of recognizing whether a simplicial face lattice is polytopal is sometimes called the Steinitz problem.
Sturmfels and Bokowski advanced a set of methods in the late 80s to test whether ...
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Can you perturb an inscribed polytope so all its edges grow?
Consider the family of convex simplicial polytopes with vertices in the unit sphere of $\mathbb{R}^n$ which have the origin as an interior point.
My question is the following:
Let $P, P'$ be two non-...
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Which finite groups are generated by n involutions?
One of the interesting problems in abstract polytope theory is to determine, for a given finite group, when that group is the automorphism group of a regular abstract polytope. This is equivalent to ...
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Minimal combinatorial data needed to define a polytope [duplicate]
Suppose I give a list of vertices $(v_1, v_2, ..., v_n)$, and a list of "adjacencies", i.e. pairs of vertices $(v_i,v_j)$. Does it exists a unique polytope that has this vertices and realises the ...