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Addition and decomposition of convex polytopes

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A new addition of convex polytopes is defined and the possibility of representing each polytope as a sum of “standard” polytopes is established

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  1. Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, U.S.A.

    William J. Firey

  2. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

    Branko Grünbaum

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The research reported in this paper was supported in part by the National Science Foundation NSF-G 19838, and by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research grant AF EOAR 63-63.

Lecture delivered by the second author at a symposium on Series and Geometry in Linear Spaces, held at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem from March 16 till March 24, 1964.

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Firey, W.J., Grünbaum, B. Addition and decomposition of convex polytopes. Israel J. Math. 2, 91–100 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02759949

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