Inequalities for cd-Indices of Joins and Products of Polytopes

نویسندگان

  • Richard Ehrenborg
  • Harold Fox
چکیده

The cd-index is a polynomial which encodes the flag f-vector of a convex polytope. For poly-topes U and V , we determine explicit recurrences for computing the cd-index of the free join U ∨ V and the cd-index of the Cartesian product U × V. As an application of these recurrences, we prove the inequality Ψ(U ∨ (V × W)) ≤ Ψ((U ∨ V) × W) involving the cd-indices of three polytopes.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Combinatorica

دوره 23  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2003