Conjecture on the facet-normal characterization of near-maximal strong Carathéodory number

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Let KK be a polytope, and let its normals be the normal vectors defining its facets. The Carathéodory number for KK-strong convexity is one less than the number of facets of KK.

Facet-normal characterization conjecture. The normals of KK are the same as either those of a simplex bounded by an extra facet, or those of a pyramid that is not a simplex.

This would characterize the case in which the strong-convexity Carathéodory number is one less than the number of facets; the converse is established by the corresponding examples for pyramids and simplices bounded by an extra facet.

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Vuong Bui, “A characterization of the Carathéodory number for H-convexity”, arXiv:2507.11013 (2025).

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