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The decomposition of the hypermetric cone into L-domains
The hypermetric cone \HYP_{n+1} is the parameter space of basic Delaunay
polytopes in n-dimensional lattice. The cone \HYP_{n+1} is polyhedral; one
way of seeing this is that modulo image by the covariance map \HYP_{n+1} is a
finite union of L-domains, i.e., of parameter space of full Delaunay
tessellations.
In this paper, we study this partition of the hypermetric cone into
L-domains. In particular, it is proved that the cone \HYP_{n+1} of
hypermetrics on n+1 points contains exactly {1/2}n! principal L-domains. We
give a detailed description of the decomposition of \HYP_{n+1} for n=2,3,4
and a computer result for n=5 (see Table \ref{TableDataHYPn}). Remarkable
properties of the root system are key for the decomposition of
\HYP_5.Comment: 20 pages 2 figures, 2 table