Simple polytope

In geometry, a d-dimensional simple polytope is a d-dimensional polytope each of whose vertices are adjacent to exactly d edges (also d facets). The vertex figure of a simple d-polytope is a (d − 1)-simplex.

They are topologically dual to simplicial polytopes. The family of polytopes which are both simple and simplicial are simplices or two-dimensional polygons.

For example, a simple polyhedron is a polyhedron whose vertices are adjacent to 3 edges and 3 faces. And the dual to a simple polyhedron is a simplicial polyhedron, containing all triangular faces.

Micha Perles conjectured that a simple polytope is completely determined by its 1-skeleton; his conjecture was proven in 1987 by Blind and Mani-Levitska. Gil Kalai provided a later simplification of this result based on the theory of unique sink orientations.