Convex combinations and minimal faces of rational polytopes #
This file develops the order-theoretic face API needed by the canonical face flag. Positivity in an exposed face forces every positive summand into that face. Relative-interior membership consequently implies that the face is the least face containing the point. Independently, finiteness of the face poset constructs such a least face for every point of the polytope.
If a convex combination belongs to an exposed face, every input with strictly positive weight belongs to that face.
A point in the relative interior of a face belongs to no smaller face: the relative-interior face lies below every face containing the point.
Relative interiors of distinct faces are disjoint.
Order-theoretic minimality among the faces which contain a point.
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Every point of a rational polytope has a least containing face. This is purely finite: choose a containing face with the fewest generators, then intersect it with any competing containing face.
Relative-interior membership implies order-theoretic minimality.
Order-theoretic least faces are unique.