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 . 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.
Cite
@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}
}
Comments
5 pages, 3 figures