The option ExtraZeroRows is used by the functions matchingFieldPolytope and weightMatrixCone. In each case, the option controls the ambient space of the polyhedron. By default the value is zero. It is typically used internally for computing Minkowski sums of polyhedra that would ordinarily belong to different ambient spaces.
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In the above examples, the polyhedral objects typically live in the space $\RR^{2 \times 4}$. However, by adding an extra row, the objects live in $\RR^{3 \times 4} \cong \RR^{12}$. Reading the entries of columns from top-to-bottom corresponds to reading the entries of the corresponding matrix row-by-row.
The object ExtraZeroRows is a symbol.
The source of this document is in /build/reproducible-path/macaulay2-1.26.05+ds/M2/Macaulay2/packages/MatchingFields.m2:2096:0.