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Definition.
An integral affine structure on is polyhedral if there is an -dimensional polyhedral complex , a collection of disjoint open sets , whose closures cover , i.e. , and a continuous map , which provides an affine homeomorphism of each with the interior of some -dimensional face of . We say that the pair realizes the polyhedral affine structure if is minimal, which, in particular, means that there is a bijection between open sets and -dimensional cells of .