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Primary Facets Of Order Polytopes
Mixture models on order relations play a central role in recent
investigations of transitivity in binary choice data. In such a model, the
vectors of choice probabilities are the convex combinations of the
characteristic vectors of all order relations of a chosen type. The five
prominent types of order relations are linear orders, weak orders, semiorders,
interval orders and partial orders. For each of them, the problem of finding a
complete, workable characterization of the vectors of probabilities is
crucial---but it is reputably inaccessible. Under a geometric reformulation,
the problem asks for a linear description of a convex polytope whose vertices
are known. As for any convex polytope, a shortest linear description comprises
one linear inequality per facet. Getting all of the facet-defining inequalities
of any of the five order polytopes seems presently out of reach. Here we search
for the facet-defining inequalities which we call primary because their
coefficients take only the values -1, 0 or 1. We provide a classification of
all primary, facet-defining inequalities of three of the five order polytopes.
Moreover, we elaborate on the intricacy of the primary facet-defining
inequalities of the linear order and the weak order polytopes
On Compact Hyperbolic Coxeter Polytopes with Few Facets
This thesis is concerned with classifying and bounding the dimension of compact hyperbolic Coxeter polytopes with few facets. We derive a new method for generating the combinatorial type of these polytopes via the classification of point set order types. We use this to complete the classification of d-polytopes with d+4 facets for d=4 and 5. In dimensions 4 and 5, there are 341 and 50 polytopes, respectively, yielding many new examples for further study. By previous work of Felikson and Tumarkin, the only remaining dimension where new polytopes may arise is d=6. We furthermore show that any polytope of dimension 6 must have a missing face of size 3 or 4.
The second portion of this thesis provides new upper bounds on the dimension of compact hyperbolic Coxeter d-polytopes with d+k facets for k = 5. In the process of proving the present bounds, we additionally show that there are no compact hyperbolic Coxeter 3-free polytopes of dimension higher than 13. As a consequence of our bounds, we prove that a compact hyperbolic Coxeter 29-polytope has at least 40 facets
Revlex-Initial 0/1-Polytopes
We introduce revlex-initial 0/1-polytopes as the convex hulls of
reverse-lexicographically initial subsets of 0/1-vectors. These polytopes are
special knapsack-polytopes. It turns out that they have remarkable extremal
properties. In particular, we use these polytopes in order to prove that the
minimum numbers f(d, n) of facets and the minimum average degree a(d, n) of the
graph of a d-dimensional 0/1-polytope with n vertices satisfy f(d, n) <= 3d and
a(d, n) <= d + 4. We furthermore show that, despite the sparsity of their
graphs, revlex-initial 0/1-polytopes satisfy a conjecture due to Mihail and
Vazirani, claiming that the graphs of 0/1-polytopes have edge-expansion at
least one.Comment: Accepted for publication in J. Comb. Theory Ser. A; 24 pages;
simplified proof of Theorem 1; corrected and improved version of Theorem 4
(the average degree is now bounded by d+4 instead of d+8); several minor
corrections suggested by the referee
Revlex-initial 0/1-polytopes
AbstractWe introduce revlex-initial 0/1-polytopes as the convex hulls of reverse-lexicographically initial subsets of 0/1-vectors. These polytopes are special knapsack-polytopes. It turns out that they have remarkable extremal properties. In particular, we use these polytopes in order to prove that the minimum numbers gnfac(d,n) of facets and the minimum average degree gavdeg(d,n) of the graph of a d-dimensional 0/1-polytope with n vertices satisfy gnfac(d,n)⩽3d and gavdeg(d,n)⩽d+4. We furthermore show that, despite the sparsity of their graphs, revlex-initial 0/1-polytopes satisfy a conjecture due to Mihail and Vazirani, claiming that the graphs of 0/1-polytopes have edge-expansion at least one
Compact hyperbolic Coxeter n-polytopes with n+3 facets
We use methods of combinatorics of polytopes together with geometrical and
computational ones to obtain the complete list of compact hyperbolic Coxeter
n-polytopes with n+3 facets, 3<n<8. Combined with results of Esselmann (1994),
Andreev (1970) and Poincare (1882) this gives the classification of all compact
hyperbolic Coxeter n-polytopes with n+3 facets.Comment: v4: paper is rewritten. Complete proofs added, errors corrected. 36
pages, a lot of figure
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