Adjoints and canonical forms of polypolsShow others and affiliations
2025 (English)In: Documenta Mathematica, ISSN 1431-0635, E-ISSN 1431-0643, Vol. 30, no 2, p. 275-346
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Abstract [en]
Polypols are natural generalizations of polytopes, with boundaries given by non-linear algebraic hypersurfaces.We describe polypols in the plane and in 3-space that admit a unique adjoint hypersurface and study them from an algebro-geometric perspective. We relate planar polypols to positive geometries introduced originally in particle physics, and identify the adjoint curve of a planar polypol with the numerator of the canonical differential form associated with the positive geometry.We settle several cases of a conjecture by Wachspress claiming that the adjoint curve of a regular planar polypol does not intersect its interior. In particular, we provide a complete characterization of the real topology of the adjoint curve for arbitrary convex polygons. Finally, we determine all types of planar polypols such that the rational map sending a polypol to its adjoint is finite, and explore connections of our topic with algebraic statistics.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
European Mathematical Society - EMS - Publishing House GmbH , 2025. Vol. 30, no 2, p. 275-346
Keywords [en]
adjoints, algebraic statistics, canonical forms, plane curves, polypols, positive geometries
National Category
Geometry Mathematical Analysis
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-362717DOI: 10.4171/DM/991ISI: 001450119900002Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-105002639925OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-362717DiVA, id: diva2:1954159
Note
Not duplicate with DiVA 1705979
QC 20250424
2025-04-232025-04-232025-04-25Bibliographically approved