A counterexample to the Hirsch Conjecture

作者:Santos Francisco*
来源:Annals of Mathematics, 2012, 176(1): 383-412.
DOI:10.4007/annals.2012.176.1.7

摘要

The Hirsch Conjecture (1957) stated that the graph of a d-dimensional polytope with n facets cannot have (combinatorial) diameter greater than n-d. That is, any two vertices of the polytope can be connected by a path of at most n - d edges. %26lt;br%26gt;This paper presents the first counterexample to the conjecture. Our polytope has dimension 43 and 86 facets. It is obtained from a 5-dimensional polytope with 48 facets that violates a certain generalization of the d-step conjecture of Klee and Walkup.

  • 出版日期2012-7