Realization Spaces of Polytopes
Author | : Jürgen Richter-Gebert |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 195 |
Release | : 2006-11-13 |
ISBN-10 | : 9783540496403 |
ISBN-13 | : 3540496408 |
Rating | : 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Download or read book Realization Spaces of Polytopes written by Jürgen Richter-Gebert and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-11-13 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book collects results about realization spaces of polytopes. It gives a presentation of the author's "Universality Theorem for 4-polytopes". It is a comprehensive survey of the important results that have been obtained in that direction. The approaches chosen are direct and very geometric in nature. The book is addressed to researchers and to graduate students. The former will find a comprehensive source for the above mentioned results. The latter will find a readable introduction to the field. The reader is assumed to be familiar with basic concepts of linear algebra.