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V. M. Buchstaber Steklov Mathematical Institute, RAS Moscow, Russia buchstab@mi.ras.ru

Toric top ology of Stasheff p olytop es and Burgers-Hopf equation
The Stasheff polytopes Kn , n > 2, appeared in the Stasheff paper "Homotopy associativity of H-spaces" (1963) as the spaces of homotopy parameters for maps determining associativity conditions for a product a1 . . . an , n > 2. Stasheff polytopes are the focus of attention of various research areas. Nowadays they have become well-known due to applications of operad theory in physics. There is a growing number of different approaches, bracketing, polygon dissection, plane trees, intervals and so on, which result in Stasheff polytopes. We will describe geometry and combinatorics of Stasheff polytopes using several constructions of these polytopes and the methods of toric topology. We will show that the two-parameter generating function U (t, x), enumerating the number of k -dimensional faces of the n-th Stasheff polytope, satisfies the famous Burgers-Hopf equation Ut = U Ux . We will discuss some applications of this result including an interpretation of the Dehn­ Sommerville relations in terms of the Cauchy problem, and the Cayley formula in terms of conservation laws. References [1] V. M. Buchstaber, T. E. Panov, Torus actions and their applications in topology and combinatirics., AMS, University Lecture Series, v. 24, Providence, RI, 2002. [2] V. M. Buchstaber, T. E. Panov and N. Ray, Spaces of polytopes and cobordism of quasitoric manifolds. Moscow Math. J. 7 (2), 2007, 219-242. [3] V. M. Buchstaber, E. V. Koritskaya, The Quasi-Linear Burgers-Hopf Equation and the Stasheff Polytopes., Funct. Anal. Appl., 41:3, 2007, 196­207.

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