Ehrhart positivity for marked order polytopes
Combinatorics
2026-04-20 v2
Abstract
Given a pair of finite posets , the function counting integer-valued order preserving extensions of an order preserving map from to is given by a piecewise polynomial in . We provide a criterion for the nonnegativity of the coefficients of these multivariate polynomials and apply it to show that marked order polytopes of skew shapes are Ehrhart positive in a multivariate sense. This extends recent results of Ferroni-Morales-Panova on order polytopes of skew shapes and proves conjectures on the Ehrhart positivity of skew Gelfand-Tsetlin polytopes and -generalized Pitman-Stanley polytopes due to Alexanderson-Alhajjar and Dugan-Hegarty-Morales-Raymond, respectively.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2604.08394,
title = {Ehrhart positivity for marked order polytopes},
author = {Katharina Jochemko and Krishna Menon},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.08394},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
7 pages, 4 figures; v2: minor revisions