Minkowski Summands of Cubes
Speaker:
Bennet Goeckner, University of San Diego
Date and Time:
Thursday, October 6, 2022 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Location:
Fields Institute, Room 210
Abstract:
A polytope $P$ is the convex hull of finitely many points in Euclidean space. For polytopes $P$ and $Q$, we say that $Q$ is a Minkowski summand of $P$ if there exists some polytope $R$ such that $Q+R=P$. The type cone of $P$ encodes all of the (weak) Minkowski summands of P. In general, combinatorially isomorphic polytopes can have different type cones. We will first consider type cones of polygons, and then show that if $P$ is combinatorially isomorphic to a product of simplices, then the type cone is simplicial. This is joint work with Federico Castillo, Joseph Doolittle, Michael Ross, and Li Ying.