Abstract:
The paper defines a polytopal incomplete fan as a subfan of a polytopal complete fan. A criterion for a not necessarily complete fan to be polytopal is proved. Using this criterion, a minimal nonpolytopal fan of three two-dimensional cones pairwise meeting in the origin is found in $\mathbb R^3$.
Keywords:polytopes, cones, fans, systems of linear equations and inequalities.
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