[PPL-devel] some questions regarding PPL

[Roberto Bagnara]

On 02/11/2016 09:17 PM, Bishoksan Kafle wrote:
> 
> On Feb 11, 2016, at 8:05 AM, Roberto Bagnara <bagnara at cs.unipr.it <mailto:bagnara at cs.unipr.it>> wrote:
> 
>>>
>>> 2. In the article
>>> (http://bugseng.com/products/ppl/documentation/BagnaraRZH02.pdf),
>>> you mentioned that poly_hull_assign is different from
>>> upper_bound_assign for Polyhedra
>>
>> Where exactly do you read that?
> 
> Sorry I wanted to ask the difference between poly-hull and convex-hull. Please ignore my previous question.

The convex polyhedral hull of a set of convex polyhedra P is the smallest
convex polyhedron that contains all members of P.

The convex hull of a set of convex polyhedra P is the smallest
convex set that contains all members of P.

There exists P such that convex_polyhedral_hull(P) != convex_hull(P).
For instance, take P = { p1, p2 } where:

  p1 = { (x, y) in R^2 | x = 0 },
  p2 = { (x, y) in R^2 | x = 0, y = 1 }.

We have that (1, 1) belongs to convex_polyhedral_hull(P)
but (1, 1) does *not* belong to convex_hull(P).
Kind regards,

   Roberto

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