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Integer Points in Polyhedra: Spring 2009 Assignment Sheet 7

This document contains an assignment sheet with 5 exercises related to integer points in polyhedra. The exercises cover topics such as: 1) Showing that the Minkowski sum of two polyhedra P and Q equals the sum of the individual polyhedra. 2) Demonstrating that there is a linear transformation D that maps a polyhedron P to its polar P*. 3) Proving that applying the linear transformation D to the product of two functions f1 and f2 equals the product of applying D to each function individually.

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Integer Points in Polyhedra: Spring 2009 Assignment Sheet 7

This document contains an assignment sheet with 5 exercises related to integer points in polyhedra. The exercises cover topics such as: 1) Showing that the Minkowski sum of two polyhedra P and Q equals the sum of the individual polyhedra. 2) Demonstrating that there is a linear transformation D that maps a polyhedron P to its polar P*. 3) Proving that applying the linear transformation D to the product of two functions f1 and f2 equals the product of applying D to each function individually.

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Dr.

Gennady Shmonin

Due Date: April 21, 2009

Integer Points in Polyhedra


Spring 2009 Assignment Sheet 7

Exercise 1 (Minkowski sum) Show that there is a unique bilinear operation : P (Rn ) P (Rn ) P (Rn ) such that [P ] [Q ] = [P + Q ] for any two polyhedra P and Q in Rn . Exercise 2 (Polarity) Show that there is a linear transformation D : P Rn P Rn such that D ([P ]) = [P ] for any non-empty polyhedron polyhedron P in Rn , where P denotes the polar of P . Exercise 3 Let f 1 , f 2 P (Rn ) be linear combinations of indicator functions of poyhedral cones. Prove that D ( f 1 f 2 ) = D ( f 1 ) D ( f 2 ). Here D : P (Rn ) D (Rn ) is the linear transformation from Exercise 2, while : P (Rn ) P (Rn ) P (Rn ) is the multiplication operation from Exercise 1. Exercise 4 Let P 0 (Rn ) denote the vectors space spanned by the indicators of all polyhedra containing a line. We saw that [P ] [cone(P, v )] (mod P 0 (Rn ))
v Vert(P )

holds for all simplices P in R . Using this fact, show that the same is true for all polytopes in Rn .

Exercise 5 (GramBrianchon theorem) Let P Rn be a polyhedron. We say that two points x , y P are equivalent, if cone(P, x ) = cone(P, y ). An equivalence class of points in P is just an open face F P . For an x F , we denote cone(x ) by cone(F ). Prove that [P ]
F

(1)dim(F ) [cone(P, F )],

where the sum is taken over all non-empty faces of P , including F = P .

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