D.13.4.2 secondaryPolytope

Usage:

secondaryPolytope(polygon[,#]); list polygon, list #

Assume:

- polygon is a list of integer vectors of the same size representing the affine coordinates of lattice points
- if the triangulations of the corresponding polygon have already been computed with the procedure triangulations then these can be given as a second (optional) argument in order to avoid doing this computation again

Purpose:

the procedure considers the marked polytope given as the convex hull of the lattice points and with these lattice points as markings; it then computes the lattice points of the secondary polytope given by this marked polytope which correspond to the triangulations computed by the procedure triangulations

Return:

list, say L, such that:
L[1] = intmat, each row gives the affine coordinates of a lattice point in the secondary polytope given by the marked
polytope corresponding to polygon
L[2] = the list of corresponding triangulations

Note:

if the triangluations are not handed over as optional argument the procedure calls for its computation of these triangulations the program points2triangs from the program topcom by Joerg Rambau, Universitaet Bayreuth; it therefore is necessary that this program is installed in order to use this procedure; see
http://www.rambau.wm.uni-bayreuth.de/TOPCOM/);

LIB "polymake.lib";
// the lattice points of the unit square in the plane
list polygon=intvec(0,0),intvec(0,1),intvec(1,0),intvec(1,1);
// the secondary polytope of this lattice point configuration is computed
list secpoly=secondaryPolytope(polygon);
// the points in the secondary polytope
print(secpoly[1]);
// the corresponding triangulations
secpoly[2];