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About the number of faces of the conification of a polytope

Let $P\subset\mathbb{R}^n$ be a polytope of dimension $(n-1)$ such that the origin $\vec{0}\not\in\text{Aff}(P)$, where $\text{Aff}(P)$ denotes the affine hull of $P$ in $\mathbb{R}^n$. Now, we ...
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Explicit equation for border of the Minkowski sum of sets

Assume we have sets of the form $$ M_j = \{x\in\mathbb{R}^d : f_j(x) \le 0,x \ge 0\} $$ where $x\ge 0$ means $x_i \ge 0 \quad \forall i=1,\dots, d$. Goal I am looking for an (explicit) representation ...
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Dodecahedron deformation II

(Follow-up to this question) Can a dodecahedron be deformed into a great stellated dodecahedron while maintaining the number of dimensions each element occupies?
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Can a dodecahedron be deformed into a great stellated dodecahedron?

Can a convex regular dodecahedron be deformed into a great stellated dodecahedron while keeping all pentagons planar and all edges of nonzero length the whole time?
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Classification of pseudoregular polyhedra

In contrast to a regular polyhedron, which has one orbit of flags, I’ve been studying what I call pseudoregular polyhedra, which have two orbits of flags interchanged by conjugation (explained here). ...