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Schubitopes are not Ehrhart positive

Combinatorics 2026-08-01 v1

Abstract

Schubitopes are a family of generalized permutahedra arising as the Newton polytopes of both Schubert polynomials and Demazure characters of GLn\mathrm{GL}_n. Monical, Tokcan, and Yong conjectured that Schubitopes are Ehrhart positive. We exhibit a counterexample to this conjecture, a Schubitope whose Ehrhart polynomial contains a negative coefficient in its monomial expansion. This example was found using GPT-5.6 Sol Pro in ChatGPT.

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@article{arxiv.2608.00377,
  title  = {Schubitopes are not Ehrhart positive},
  author = {Yupeng Li and Avery St. Dizier},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2608.00377},
  year   = {2026}
}

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5 pages, 3 figures