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testing whether a polyhedral complex is convex
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A (polyhedral) cone in $\Bbb R^n$ is the solution set of a finite number of inequalities of the form $a_1x_1+\cdots+a_nx_n\geq 0$. Note that I don't require strict convexity, i.e. a cone $...
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Vertex enumeration for polytope with a sparse halfplane description?
Say I have a (bounded convex) polytope $P\subset\mathbb R^d$ with description $Ax\le b$, where $A$ is sparse in the sense that there are at most $k$ nonzero entries in each row or column, where $k$ is ...
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Efficient scissors congruence between efficiently describable convex polytopes and simplex?
Is there a convex polytope in $\mathbb R^n$ describable by only $O(poly(\log n))$ half-plane inequalities with positive volume (so at least $n+1$ vertices) such that the standard simplex has a ...
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Covering a simplex efficiently by efficiently describable polytopes?
Take a standard simplex or cube in $\mathbb R^n$.
Is there a way to cover it with $O(poly(\log n))$ convex polytopes each describable by only $O(poly(\log n))$ half-plane inequalities?
If not what ...
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Polytopes that can be efficiently described and efficiently covered by cubes or simplices?
Is there a bounded convex polytope $\mathcal P\subseteq\mathbb R^n$ with $m$ vertices, whose vertex vectors span $\mathbb R^n$ (so $m$ is $\Omega(n)$) and just $O(poly(\log n))$ half-plane ...
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Constructing a minimum-volume outer approximation polytope with fewer facets
I am tackling the following problem:
Given a set of points $D \in \mathbb{R}^d$ and their convex hull, represented with $n$ facets, I want to construct a convex polytope $P$ with at most $m<n$ ...