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In this paper, we deepen the theoretical study of the geometric structure of a balanced complex polytope (b.c.p.), which is the generalization of a real centrally symmetric polytope to the complex space. We also propose a constructive algorithm for the representation of its facets in terms of their associated linear functionals. The b.c.p.s are used, for example, as a tool for the computation of the joint spectral radius of families of matrices. For the representation of real polytopes, there exist well-known algorithms such as, for example, the Beneath–Beyond method. Our purpose is to modify and adapt this method to the complex case by exploiting the geometric features of the b.c.p. However, due to the significant increase in the difficulty of the problem when passing from the real to the complex case, in this paper, we confine ourselves to examine the two-dimensional case. We also propose an algorithm for the computation of the norm the unit ball of which is a b.c.p.
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Communicated by Herbert Edelsbrunner.
This work was supported by INdAM-GNCS.
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Vagnoni, C., Zennaro, M. The Analysis and the Representation of Balanced Complex Polytopes in 2D. Found Comput Math 9, 259–294 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10208-008-9032-2
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10208-008-9032-2