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Classification of Triples of Lattice Polytopes with a Given Mixed Volume

  • BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg
  • Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg

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Abstract

We present an algorithm for the classification of triples of lattice polytopes with a given mixed volume m in dimension 3. It is known that the classification can be reduced to the enumeration of so-called irreducible triples, the number of which is finite for fixed m. Following this algorithm, we enumerate all irreducible triples of normalized mixed volume up to 4 that are inclusion-maximal. This produces a classification of generic trivariate sparse polynomial systems with up to 4 solutions in the complex torus, up to monomial changes of variables. By a recent result of Esterov, this leads to a description of all generic trivariate sparse polynomial systems that are solvable by radicals.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)165-202
Number of pages38
JournalDiscrete and Computational Geometry
Volume66
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 1 2021

Keywords

  • Bernstein–Khovanskii–Kouchnirenko theorem
  • Classification
  • Lattice polytope
  • Mixed volume
  • Newton polytope
  • Sparse polynomial systems

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