Finite minima of affine functionals #
A finite minimum of continuous affine functionals is piecewise affine. The cells are the polyhedra on which a fixed functional is no larger than every member of the finite family. This is the chart calculation used by the inverse of a barycentric stellar identification: the amount transferred from a starred face is its least barycentric coordinate.
The construction is the standard polyhedral decomposition from Rourke--Sanderson, Introduction to Piecewise-Linear Topology, Chapter 1. It supplies the affine charts needed for PL compatibility of barycentric stellar identifications.
The cell on which the affine functional indexed by i is a minimum on s.
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A finite-minimum cell is an intersection of affine half-spaces.
The finite affine infimum agrees with the active functional on its cell.
A finite minimum of continuous affine functionals is piecewise affine on the whole source.