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<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Hironaka’s characteristic polyhedron is an important combinatorial object reflecting the local nature of a singularity. We prove that it can be determined without passing to the completion if the local ring is a G-ring and if additionally either it is Henselian, or a certain polynomiality condition (Pol) holds, or a mild condition (*) on the singularity holds. For example, the latter is fulfilled if the residue field is perfect.</jats:p>