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Record Nr.

UNISA996466480303316

Autore

Handelman David <1950->

Titolo

Positive polynomials, convex integral polytopes, and a randomwalk problem / / David E. Handelman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; Heidelberg : , : Springer-Verlag, , [1987]

©1987

ISBN

3-540-47951-1

Edizione

[1st ed. 1987.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIV, 138 p.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Mathematics ; ; 1282

Classificazione

46L35

13B25

52A43

60G50

Disciplina

516.158

Soggetti

Polytopes

Polynomials

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Definitions and notation -- A random walk problem -- Integral closure and cohen-macauleyness -- Projective RK-modules are free -- States on ideals -- Factoriality and integral simplicity -- Meet-irreducibile ideals in RK -- Isomorphisms.

Sommario/riassunto

Emanating from the theory of C*-algebras and actions of tori theoren, the problems discussed here are outgrowths of random walk problems on lattices. An AGL (d,Z)-invariant (which is a partially ordered commutative algebra) is obtained for lattice polytopes (compact convex polytopes in Euclidean space whose vertices lie in Zd), and certain algebraic properties of the algebra are related to geometric properties of the polytope. There are also strong connections with convex analysis, Choquet theory, and reflection groups. This book serves as both an introduction to and a research monograph on the many interconnections between these topics, that arise out of questions of the following type: Let f be a (Laurent) polynomial in several real variables, and let P be a (Laurent) polynomial with only positive coefficients; decide under what circumstances there exists an integer n such that Pnf itself also has only positive coefficients. It is intended to



reach and be of interest to a general mathematical audience as well as specialists in the areas mentioned.