There is an established and active interaction between Discrete Geometry and Algebraic Combinatorics. Convex polytopes, monomial ideals, oriented matroids, order complexes, hyperplane arrangements, and semi-algebraic sets are good examples of geometric objects that carry rich combinatorial information and provide challenging enumerative and algebraic questions. We invite submissions for a special issue in this subject area.
Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to, f-vectors of polyhedral complexes, algebraic aspects of f-vectors, chamber complexes, triangulations of convex polytopes, extension spaces, subspace arrangements, splines, zonotopal tilings, semi-algebraic geometry, Grassmannians and flag manifolds, and toric varieties.
It is timely to provide a common forum for some of the most recent results in geometric combinatorics. This special issue of the journal Discrete and Computational Geometry accompanies two forthcoming events in California. The special session on Algebraic and Geometric Combinatorics at 2000 Fall Western Section Meeting of the AMS at San Francisco State University (October 21-22, 2000) and the "Bay Area Discrete Math Reunion" at University of California at Davis (October 20, 2000). If you intend to make a submission to this special issue please let us know by the end of October 2000.
Papers should be submitted to Jesús De Loera or Frank Sottile (see information below). The preferred form of submission is electronic, with LaTeX-2e as the preferred file format. Following is the time table for the special issue.
| Deadline for submission of full papers: | December 10, 2000 |
| Notification of acceptance/rejection: | May 1, 2001 |
| Final revised manuscripts due: | July 1, 2001 |
In order to achieve the earliest possible publication date, we will
adhere strictly to the above deadlines. All submission will
be refereed according to the very high standards of
Discrete
and Computational Geometry.
This announcement and updated
information about the special issue can be obtained from the
guest editors for this volume:
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Jesús De Loera Department of Mathematics University of California Davis, CA 95616 deloera@math.ucdavis.edu |
Frank Sottile Department of Mathematics Box 34515 University of Massachussetts Amherst, MA 01003-4515 sottile@math.umass.edu |
Bernd Sturmfels Department of Mathematics University of California Berkeley, CA 94720 bernd@math.berkeley.edu |