#  Copyright (c) 1997-2015
#  Ewgenij Gawrilow, Michael Joswig (Technische Universitaet Berlin, Germany)
#  http://www.polymake.org
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#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

use application 'polytope';

# produce interesting g_vectors of simplicial polytopes
# Ziegler: Lectures on Polytopes, §8.6

# Example with non-unimodal f-vector:
# $p=interesting_g_vector(20,169,4203045807457);

sub interesting_g_vector(@) {
  die "usage: interesting_g_vector(d,n,r)" unless scalar(@_)==3;
  my ($d,$n,$r) = @_;
  my $length=$d/2+1;
  my $g=new Vector<Integer>($length);
  $g->[0] = 1; $g->[1] = $n-$d-1+$r;
  for (my $k=2; $k<$length; ++$k) {
    $g->[$k] = binomial($n-$d-2+$k,$k);
  }
  return (new Polytope(G_VECTOR=>$g, COMBINATORIAL_DIM=>$d, SIMPLICIAL=>1));
}


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