Hom-polytopes

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2011-11-16

arxiv.org/abs/1111.3880v2

Mathematics

Combinatorics

31 pages, 7 figures, 4 tables

Scientific paper

We study the polytopes of affine maps between two polytopes -- the hom-polytopes. The hom-polytope functor has a left adjoint -- tensor product polytopes. The analogy with the category of vector spaces is limited, as we illustrate by a series of explicit examples exhibiting various extremal properties. The main challenge for hom-polytopes is to determine their vertices. A polytopal analogue of the rank-nullity theorem amounts to understanding how the vertex maps behave relative to their surjective and injective factors. This leads to interesting classes of surjective maps. In the last two sections we focus on two opposite extremal cases -- when the source and target polytopes are both polygons and are either generic or regular.

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