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Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991000330819707536

Autore

Barvinok, Alexander

Titolo

Integer points in polyhedra / Alexander Barvinok

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Zurich : European Mathematical Society, 2008

ISBN

9783037190524

3037190523

Descrizione fisica

viii, 189 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

Collana

Zurich lectures in advanced mathematics

Classificazione

AMS 52C07

AMS 52B20

AMS 05A15

LC QA171.5.B38

Disciplina

511.33

Soggetti

Polyhedral functions

Lattice theory

Polynomials

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-189) and index

Nota di contenuto

The algebra of polyhedra ; Linear transformations and polyhedra ; The structure of polyhedra ; Polarity ; Tangent cones : decompositions modulo polyhedra with lines ; Open polyhedra ; The exponential valuation ; Computing volumes ; Lattices, bases, and parallelepipeds ; The Minkowski convex body theorem ; Reduced basis ; Exponential sums and generating functions ; Totally unimodular polytopes ; Decomposing a 2-dimensional cone into unimodular cones via continued fractions ; Decomposing a rational cone of an arbitrary dimension into unimodular cones ; Efficient counting of integer points in rational polytopes ; The polynomial behavior of the number of integer points in polytopes ; A valuation on rational cones ; A "local" formula for the number of integer points in a polytope