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Do alcoved lattice polytopes have unimodal h*-vector?

Combinatorics 2021-05-03 v1

Abstract

We show that h*-vectors of alcoved polytopes P in R^n (of Lie type A) are unimodal if they contain interior lattice points and their facets have lattice distance 1 to the set of interior lattice points. The maximal possible such distance for general alcoved polytopes is shown to be dim(P)-1. A secondary purpose of the paper is to serve as a guide to previous work surrounding unimodality of h*-vectors of alcoved polytopes and related questions.

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@article{arxiv.2104.15080,
  title  = {Do alcoved lattice polytopes have unimodal h*-vector?},
  author = {Rainer Sinn and Hannah Sjöberg},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.15080},
  year   = {2021}
}
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