passagemath-polyhedra 10.8.5rc1

passagemath: Convex polyhedra in arbitrary dimension, mixed integer linear optimization

passagemath is open source mathematical software in Python, released under the GNU General Public Licence GPLv2+.

It is a fork of SageMath, which has been developed 2005-2026 under the motto “Creating a Viable Open Source Alternative to Magma, Maple, Mathematica, and MATLAB”.

The passagemath fork uses the motto “Creating a Free Passage Between the Scientific Python Ecosystem and Mathematical Software Communities.” It was created in October 2024 with the following goals:

• providing modularized installation with pip from binary wheels, - this major project was started in May 2020 in the Sage codebase and completed in passagemath 10.5.29 (May 2025),

• establishing first-class membership in the scientific Python ecosystem,

• giving clear attribution of upstream projects,

• providing independently usable Python interfaces to upstream libraries,

• offering platform portability and integration testing services to upstream projects,

• inviting collaborations with upstream projects,

• building a professional, respectful, inclusive community,

• empowering Sage users to participate in the scientific Python ecosystem by publishing packages,

• developing a port to WebAssembly (Pyodide, emscripten-forge) for serverless deployment with Javascript,

• developing a native Windows port - passagemath 10.6.1 (July 2025) published the first pip-installable wheel packages for native Windows on x86_64, - passagemath packages became available in the [MSYS2 software distribution](https://packages.msys2.org/search?t=pkg&q=passagemath) in November 2025.

Moreover, the passagemath project:

• provides a stable, frequently updated version of the Sage distribution,

• integrates additional mathematical software, notably Macaulay2, a full set of GAP packages, and the Combinatorial Matrix Recognition library,

• curates a library of Sage user packages.

Full documentation is available online.

passagemath attempts to support and provides binary wheels suitable for all major Linux distributions and recent versions of macOS.

Binary wheels for native Windows (x86_64, ARM) are are available for a subset of the passagemath distributions. Use of the full functionality of passagemath on Windows currently requires the use of Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) or virtualization.

The supported Python versions in the passagemath-10.8.x series are 3.11.x-3.14.x; the passagemath-10.6.x series (EOL 2026-10) still supports Python 3.10.x.

About this pip-installable distribution package

This pip-installable distribution passagemath-polyhedra is a distribution of a part of the Sage Library. It provides a small subset of the modules of the Sage library (“sagelib”, passagemath-standard), sufficient for computations with convex polyhedra in arbitrary dimension (in exact rational arithmetic), and linear and mixed integer linear optimization (in floating point arithmetic).

What is included

• Combinatorial and Discrete Geometry: Polyhedra, lattice polyhedra, lattice points in polyhedra, triangulations, fans, polyhedral complexes, hyperplane arrrangements

• Parma Polyhedra Library (PPL) backends for rational polyhedra, lattice polygons, lattice polytopes; via pplpy

• Python backend for polyhedra over general ordered fields

• Linear, Mixed Integer Linear, and Semidefinite Optimization frontends

• GNU Linear Programming Kit (GLPK) backend for large-scale linear and mixed integer linear optimization (floating point arithmetic)

• Interactive Simplex Method

• see https://github.com/passagemath/passagemath/blob/main/pkgs/sagemath-polyhedra/MANIFEST.in

Examples

A quick way to try it out interactively:

$ pipx run --pip-args="--prefer-binary" --spec "passagemath-polyhedra[test]" ipython

In [1]: from passagemath_polyhedra import *

In [2]: P = Polyhedron(ieqs=[[0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0], [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0], [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1], [0, 0, 1, -1, -1, 1, 0], [0, 0, -1, 1, -1, 1, 0]], eqns=[[-31, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1]]); P
Out[2]: A 5-dimensional polyhedron in QQ^6 defined as the convex hull of 7 vertices

In [3]: P.Vrepresentation()
Out[4]:
(A vertex at (31, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0),
 A vertex at (0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 31),
 A vertex at (0, 0, 0, 0, 31, 0),
 A vertex at (0, 0, 31/2, 0, 31/2, 0),
 A vertex at (0, 31/2, 31/2, 0, 0, 0),
 A vertex at (0, 31/2, 0, 0, 31/2, 0),
 A vertex at (0, 0, 0, 31/2, 31/2, 0))

Available as extras, from other distributions

Additional features

pip install "passagemath-polyhedra[graphs]"

Face lattices, combinatorial polyhedra, graph-theoretic constructions

$ pipx run --pip-args="--prefer-binary" --spec "passagemath-polyhedra[graphs,test]" ipython

In [1]: from passagemath_polyhedra import *

In [2]: c5_10 = Polyhedron(vertices = [[i, i**2, i**3, i**4, i**5] for i in range(1, 11)]); c5_10
Out[2]: A 5-dimensional polyhedron in ZZ^5 defined as the convex hull of 10 vertices

In [3]: c5_10_fl = c5_10.face_lattice(); [len(x) for x in c5_10_fl.level_sets()]
Out[3]: [1, 10, 45, 100, 105, 42, 1]

pip install "passagemath-polyhedra[graphs,groups]"

Constructing symmetric polyhedra, computing automorphisms, lattice point counting modulo group actions

$ pipx run --pip-args="--prefer-binary" --spec "passagemath-polyhedra[graphs,groups,test]" ipython

In [1]: from passagemath_polyhedra import *

In [2]: P24 = polytopes.twenty_four_cell(); P24
Out[2]: A 4-dimensional polyhedron in QQ^4 defined as the convex hull of 24 vertices

In [3]: AutP24 = P24.restricted_automorphism_group(); AutP24.order()
Out[3]: 1152

pip install "passagemath-polyhedra[toric]"

Toric varieties

$ pipx run --pip-args="--prefer-binary" --spec "passagemath-polyhedra[graphs,toric,test]" ipython

In [1]: from passagemath_polyhedra import *

In [2]: TV3 = ToricVariety(NormalFan(lattice_polytope.cross_polytope(3))); TV3
Out[2]: 3-d toric variety covered by 6 affine patches

In [3]: TV3.is_orbifold()
Out[3]: False

pip install "passagemath-polyhedra[latte]"

Installs LattE integrale for lattice point counting and volume computation using generating function techniques.

$ pipx run --pip-args="--prefer-binary" --spec "passagemath-polyhedra[latte,test]" ipython

In [1]: from passagemath_polyhedra import *

In [2]: P = polytopes.cube()

In [3]: P.integral_points_count()
Out[3]:
27

In [4]: (1000000000*P).integral_points_count(verbose=True)
This is LattE integrale...
...
Total time:...
Out[4]:
8000000012000000006000000001

Additional backends for polyhedral computations

pip install "passagemath-polyhedra[normaliz]"

Normaliz, via PyNormaliz, provides very fast computations in particular for polyhedra with data in algebraic number fields.

$ pipx run --pip-args="--prefer-binary" --spec "passagemath-polyhedra[normaliz,test]" ipython

In [1]: from passagemath_polyhedra import *

In [2]: gap_norm = polytopes.grand_antiprism(backend='normaliz'); gap_norm

In [3]: gap_norm.f_vector()

pip install "passagemath-polyhedra[cddlib]"

cddlib provides support for computations with polyhedra in floating-point arithmetic.

$ pipx run --pip-args="--prefer-binary" --spec "passagemath-polyhedra[cddlib,test]" ipython

In [1]: from passagemath_polyhedra import *

In [2]: P1 = polytopes.regular_polygon(5, exact=False); P1
Out[2]: A 2-dimensional polyhedron in RDF^2 defined as the convex hull of 5 vertices

pip install "passagemath-polyhedra[lrslib]"

lrslib can be used for polytope volume computations and for enumerating Nash equilibria.

$ pipx run --pip-args="--prefer-binary" --spec "passagemath-polyhedra[flint,lrslib,test]" ipython

In [1]: from passagemath_polyhedra import *

In [2]: A = matrix([[2, 1], [1, 5/2]]); B = matrix([[-1, 3], [2, 1]])

In [3]: g = NormalFormGame([A, B]); g.obtain_nash(algorithm='lrs')
Out[3]: [[(1/5, 4/5), (3/5, 2/5)]]

pip install "passagemath-polyhedra[polymake]"

Polymake, via passagemath-polymake

Optional backends for optimization

pip install "passagemath-polyhedra[cbc]"

COIN/OR CBC Mixed Integer Linear Optimization solver, via passagemath-coin-or-cbc

pip install "passagemath-polyhedra[cplex]"

CPLEX Mixed Integer Optimization solver (proprietary; requires licensed installation), via passagemath-cplex

pip install "passagemath-polyhedra[cvxpy]"

CVXPy as middle-end for various backends

pip install "passagemath-polyhedra[gurobi]"

Gurobi Mixed Integer Optimization solver (proprietary; requires licensed installation), via passagemath-gurobi

pip install "passagemath-polyhedra[highs]"

HiGHS

pip install "passagemath-polyhedra[scip]"

SCIP Mixed Integer Optimization solver, via PySCIPOpt

Development

$ git clone --origin passagemath https://github.com/passagemath/passagemath.git
$ cd passagemath
passagemath $ ./bootstrap
passagemath $ python3 -m venv polyhedra-venv
passagemath $ source polyhedra-venv/bin/activate
(polyhedra-venv) passagemath $ pip install -v -e pkgs/sagemath-polyhedra