CELLULAR STRINGS ON POLYTOPES

Authors
BILLERA LJ KAPRANOV MM STURMFELS B
Citation
Lj. Billera et al., CELLULAR STRINGS ON POLYTOPES, Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, 122(2), 1994, pp. 549-555
Citations number
11
Categorie Soggetti
Mathematics, General",Mathematics
Journal title
Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society → ACNP
ISSN journal
00029939
Volume
122
Issue
2
Year of publication
1994
Pages
549 - 555
Database
ISI
SICI code
0002-9939(1994)122:2<549:CSOP>2.0.ZU;2-K
Abstract
The complex of cellular strings with respect to a generic Linear funct ional on a d-dimensional convex polytope has the homotopy type of the (d - 2)-sphere. This result was conjectured in a special case by H.-J. Baues.