<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <!-- for emacs: -*- coding: utf-8 -*- --> <!-- Apache may like this line in the file .htaccess: AddCharset utf-8 .html --> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1 plus MathML 2.0 plus SVG 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/2002/04/xhtml-math-svg/xhtml-math-svg-flat.dtd" > <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en"> <head><title>Polyhedron * Polyhedron -- computes the direct product of two polyhedra</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../../../Macaulay2/Style/doc.css"/> </head> <body> <table class="buttons"> <tr> <td><div><a href="___Polyhedron_sp_pl_sp__Cone.html">next</a> | <a href="___Polyhedron_sp_st_sp__Cone.html">previous</a> | <a href="___Polyhedron_sp_pl_sp__Cone.html">forward</a> | <a href="___Polyhedron_sp_st_sp__Cone.html">backward</a> | up | <a href="index.html">top</a> | <a href="master.html">index</a> | <a href="toc.html">toc</a> | <a href="http://www.math.uiuc.edu/Macaulay2/">Macaulay2 web site</a></div> </td> </tr> </table> <hr/> <div><h1>Polyhedron * Polyhedron -- computes the direct product of two polyhedra</h1> <div class="single"><h2>Synopsis</h2> <ul><li><div class="list"><dl class="element"><dt class="heading">Usage: </dt><dd class="value"><div><tt> Q = P1 * P2</tt></div> </dd></dl> </div> </li> <li><span>Operator: <a href="../../Macaulay2Doc/html/__st.html" title="a binary operator, usually used for multiplication">*</a></span></li> <li><div class="single">Inputs:<ul><li><span><tt>P1</tt>, <span>a <a href="___Polyhedron.html">convex polyhedron</a></span></span></li> <li><span><tt>P2</tt>, <span>a <a href="___Polyhedron.html">convex polyhedron</a></span></span></li> </ul> </div> </li> <li><div class="single">Outputs:<ul><li><span><tt>Q</tt>, <span>a <a href="___Polyhedron.html">convex polyhedron</a></span></span></li> </ul> </div> </li> </ul> </div> <div class="single"><h2>Description</h2> <div><p/> Computes the direct product of <tt>P1</tt> and <tt>P2</tt>.This is the polyhedron <tt>{(x,y) | x in P1, y in P2}</tt>, in the direct product of the ambient spaces.<p/> See also <a href="_direct__Product.html" title="computes the direct product of two convex objects">directProduct</a>.<table class="examples"><tr><td><pre>i1 : P1 = convexHull matrix {{1,-1,0,0},{0,0,1,-1}} o1 = {ambient dimension => 2 } dimension of lineality space => 0 dimension of polyhedron => 2 number of facets => 4 number of rays => 0 number of vertices => 4 o1 : Polyhedron</pre> </td></tr> <tr><td><pre>i2 : P2 = convexHull matrix {{1},{-1}} o2 = {ambient dimension => 2 } dimension of lineality space => 0 dimension of polyhedron => 0 number of facets => 1 number of rays => 0 number of vertices => 1 o2 : Polyhedron</pre> </td></tr> <tr><td><pre>i3 : P = P1 * P2 o3 = {ambient dimension => 4 } dimension of lineality space => 0 dimension of polyhedron => 2 number of facets => 4 number of rays => 0 number of vertices => 4 o3 : Polyhedron</pre> </td></tr> <tr><td><pre>i4 : vertices P o4 = | -1 1 0 0 | | 0 0 -1 1 | | 1 1 1 1 | | -1 -1 -1 -1 | 4 4 o4 : Matrix QQ <--- QQ</pre> </td></tr> </table> </div> </div> </div> </body> </html>