@article {IOPORT.06074018, author = {Santos, Francisco}, title = {A counterexample to the Hirsch conjecture.}, year = {2012}, journal = {Annals of Mathematics. Second Series}, volume = {176}, number = {1}, issn = {0003-486X}, pages = {383-412}, publisher = {Princeton University, Mathematics Department, Princeton, NJ; Mathematical Sciences Publishers, Berkeley, CA}, doi = {10.4007/annals.2012.176.1.7}, abstract = {The Hirsch Conjecture from 1957 states that the graph of a $d$-dimensional polytope with $n$ facets cannot have combinatorial diameter greater than $n-d$. That is, any two vertices of the polytope can be connected by a path of at most $n-d$ edges. In this paper this general conjecture is disproved by presenting a counterexample to it. The polytope of the counterexample has dimension $43$ and $86$ facets.}, reviewer = {Arnfried Kemnitz (Braunschweig)}, identifier = {06074018}, }