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polymake User Guide
Welcome to the user guide! Here you will find tutorials for various computation tasks as well as technical information about polymake's inner workings.
First Steps
- Introduction Tutorial: Please read this first.
- A bit of polymake lingo: What is an “application”? What is a “big”/“small” object? …
Tutorials
Application Tutorials
polytope
fan
- Short introduction to the application on fans (in preparation)
matroid
graph
group
topaz
tropical
- Introduction to the application tropical. Also see Hampe & Joswig, Tropical Computations in polymake, arXiv version
fulton
- Short introduction to the application on toric varieties (in preparation)
More Specific Computations
Geometry of polyhedra
Optimization
- Integer Linear Programming tutorials:
- Branch & Bound by Michael Schmitt
- Gomory Cuts by Michael Schmitt
Visualization
Miscellaneous
Technical Guides
- Using the polyDB Database
- Introduction to polyDB explains basic database access functionality
- Writing to the database explains write and update functionality
Configuration and tweking
Advanced Users
Learn how to extend polymake
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- Scripting for “power users”
- Using Callable Library (from release 2.10 on)
Details on selected topics, also linked from general pages above.