Mathematics – Algebraic Geometry
Scientific paper
2000-02-03
Mathematics
Algebraic Geometry
21 pages, uses pstricks and P. Taylor's CD package. Beitr. Algebra Geom., to appear
Scientific paper
We investigate similarities between the category of vector spaces and that of polytopal algebras, containing the former as a full subcategory. In Section 2 we introduce the notion of a polytopal Picard group and show that it is trivial for fields. The coincidence of this group with the ordinary Picard group for general rings remains an open question. In Section 3 we survey some of the previous results on the automorphism groups and retractions. These results support a general conjecture proposed in Section 4 about the nature of arbitrary homomorphisms of polytopal algebras. Thereafter a further confirmation of this conjecture is presented by homomorphisms defined on Veronese singularities. This is a continuation of the project started in our papers "Polytopal linear groups" (J. Algebra 218 (1999), 715--737), "Polytopal linear retractions" preprint, math.AG/0001049) and "Polyhedral algebras, arrangements of toric varieties, and their groups" (preprint, http://www.mathematik.uni-osnabrueck.de/K-theory/0232/index.html). The higher $K$-theoretic aspects of polytopal linear objects will be treated in "Polyhedral $K$-theory" (in preparation).
Bruns Winfried
Gubeladze Joseph
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