English

Ehrhart positivity for marked order polytopes

Combinatorics 2026-04-20 v2

Abstract

Given a pair of finite posets APA \subseteq P, the function counting integer-valued order preserving extensions of an order preserving map λ:AZ\lambda : A\rightarrow \mathbb{Z} from AA to PP is given by a piecewise polynomial in λ\lambda. 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 mm-generalized Pitman-Stanley polytopes due to Alexanderson-Alhajjar and Dugan-Hegarty-Morales-Raymond, respectively.

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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

R2 v1 2026-07-01T12:01:26.306Z