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In mathematics, a polyhedral complex is a set of polyhedra in a real vector space that fit together in a specific way. Polyhedral complexes generalize simplicial complexes and arise in various areas of polyhedral geometry, such as tropical geometry, splines and hyperplane arrangements.

Definition
A polyhedral complex \mathcal{K} is a set of polyhedra that satisfies the following conditions: :1. Every face of a polyhedron from \mathcal{K} is also in \mathcal{K}. :2. The intersection of any two polyhedra \sigma_1, \sigma_2 \in \mathcal{K} is a face of both \sigma_1 and \sigma_2. Note that the empty set is a face of every polyhedron, and so the intersection of two polyhedra in \mathcal{K} may be empty. ==Examples==
Examples
Tropical varieties are polyhedral complexes satisfying a certain balancing condition. • Simplicial complexes are polyhedral complexes in which every polyhedron is a simplex. • Voronoi diagrams. • Splines. ==Fans==
Fans
A (polyhedral) fan is a polyhedral complex in which every polyhedron is a cone from the origin. Examples of fans include: • The normal fan of a polytope. • The fan associated to a toric variety (see ). • The Gröbner fan of an ideal of a polynomial ring. • A tropical variety obtained by tropicalizing an algebraic variety over a valued field with trivial valuation. • The recession fan of a tropical variety. == References ==
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