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Abstract: a1_A $0/1$-simplex is the convex hull of $n+1$ affinely independent vertices of the unit $n$-cube $I^n$. It is nonobtuse if none of its dihedral angles is obtuse, and acute if additionally none of them is right. Acute $0/1$-simplices in $I^n$ can be represented by $0/1$-matrices $P$ of size $n\times n$ whose Gramians $G=P^\top P$ have an inverse that is strictly diagonally dominant, with negative off-diagonal entries. In this paper, we will prove that the positive part $D$ of the transposed inverse $P^{-\top}$ of $P$ is doubly stochastic and has the same support as $P$. In fact, $P$ has a fully indecomposable doubly stochastic pattern. The negative part $C$ of $P^{-\top}$ is strictly row-substochastic and its support is complementary to that of $D$, showing that $P^{-\top}=D-C$ has no zero entries and has positive row sums. As a consequence, for each facet $F$ of an acute $0/1$-facet $S$ there exists at most one other acute $0/1$-simplex $\widehat{S}$ in $I^n$ having $F$ as a facet. We call $\widehat{S}$ the acute neighbor of $S$ at $F$. If $P$ represents a $0/1$-simplex that is merely nonobtuse, the inverse of $G=P^\top P$ is only weakly diagonally dominant and has nonpositive off-diagonal entries. These matrices play an important role in finite element approximation of elliptic and parabolic problems, since they guarantee discrete maximum and comparison principles. Consequently, $P^{-\top}$ can have entries equal to zero. We show that its positive part $D$ is still doubly stochastic, but its support may be strictly contained in the support of $P$. This allows $P$ to have no doubly stochastic pattern and to be partly decomposable. In theory, this might cause a nonobtuse $0/1$-simplex $S$ to have several nonobtuse neighbors $\widehat{S}$ at each of its facets. In this paper, we study nonobtuse $0/1$-simplices $S$ having a partly decomposable matrix representation $P$. |
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