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M. Winter
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What is known about the duals of cyclic polytopes?

What is known about the duals of cyclic polytopes, in particular, their facets (or equivalently, the vertex-figures of cyclic polytopes)?

  • In even dimensions, all facets of the dual are combinatorially equivalent. Are these facets themselves duals of cyclic polytopes?

  • I think this cannot be true in odd dimensions $\ge 5$. For example, a 5-dimensional cyclic polytope is 2-neighborly, so its vertex figures are only 1-neighborly (is this true?), but 4-dimensional cyclic polytopes are 2-neighborly as well. So when does it happen that the facets are again duals of cyclic polytopes, and when are they all combinatorially equivalent?

  • In general, is there some kind of classification of the combinatorial types of these facets?

M. Winter
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