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We derive a formula for the number of lattice points in type B generalized permutohedra, providing a concise alternative to the formula obtained recently by Eur, Fink, Larson, and Spink as a result from a study of delta-matroids. Our…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Warut Thawinrak

2-level polytopes naturally appear in several areas of pure and applied mathematics, including combinatorial optimization, polyhedral combinatorics, communication complexity, and statistics. In this paper, we present a study of some 2-level…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-12-15 Manuel Aprile , Alfonso Cevallos , Yuri Faenza

In this note, we study the permutohedral geometry of the poles of a certain differential form introduced in recent work of Arkani-Hamed, Bai, He and Yan. There it was observed that the poles of the form determine a family of polyhedra which…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-05-22 Nick Early

Delta-matroids are "type B" generalizations of matroids in the same way that maximal orthogonal Grassmannians are generalizations of Grassmannians. A delta-matroid analogue of the Tutte polynomial of a matroid is the interlace polynomial.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-19 Christopher Eur , Matt Larson , Hunter Spink

We consider random polytopes in the $d$-dimensional Euclidean space that are the convex hulls i.i.d. random points selected according to beta-prime distributions. These distributions are rotationally symmetric, heavy-tailed, and their…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Ferenc Fodor , Balázs Grünfelder

Let $\mu$ be a probability distribution on $\mathbb{R}^d$ which assigns measure zero to every hyperplane and $S$ a set of points sampled independently from $\mu$. What can be said about the expected combinatorial structure of the convex…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-07-13 Brett Leroux

Zonotopal algebra is the study of a family of pairs of dual vector spaces of multivariate polynomials that can be associated with a list of vectors X. It connects objects from combinatorics, geometry, and approximation theory. The origin of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-04-01 Matthias Lenz

Consider a random set of points on the unit sphere in $\mathbb{R}^d$, which can be either uniformly sampled or a Poisson point process. Its convex hull is a random inscribed polytope, whose boundary approximates the sphere. We focus on the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2020-07-16 Arseniy Akopyan , Herbert Edelsbrunner , Anton Nikitenko

Monotone path polytopes arise as a special case of the construction of fiber polytopes, introduced by Billera and Sturmfels. A simple example is provided by the permutahedron, which is a monotone path polytope of the standard unit cube. The…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-09-07 Christos A. Athanasiadis

Very recently, Galashin, Postnikov, and Williams introduced the notion of higher secondary polytopes, generalizing the secondary polytope of Gelfand, Kapranov, and Zelevinsky. Given an $n$-point configuration $\mathcal{A}$ in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-11-03 Elisabeth Bullock , Katie Gravel

We define a family of convex polytopes called constrainahedra, which index collisions of horizontal and vertical lines. Our construction proceeds by first defining a poset $C(m,n)$ of good rectangular preorders, then proving that $C(m,n)$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-09-01 Nathaniel Bottman , Daria Poliakova

We investigate geometric and topological properties of $d$-majorization -- a generalization of classical majorization to positive weight vectors $d \in \mathbb{R}^n$. In particular, we derive a new, simplified characterization of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-03-30 Frederik vom Ende , Gunther Dirr

Generalized permutahedra are a family of polytopes with a rich combinatorial structure and strong connections to optimization. We prove that they are the universal family of polyhedra with a certain Hopf algebraic structure. Their antipode…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-09-25 Marcelo Aguiar , Federico Ardila

The singleton and doubleton minors of a polymatroid $\rho$ encode a surprising amount of information about the structural complexity of $\rho$. Given any polymatroid $\rho$, we can subtract from it a maximally-separated polymatroid,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-12-01 Fiona Young

The study of the graph diameter of polytopes is a classical open problem in polyhedral geometry and the theory of linear optimization. In this paper we continue the investigation initiated in [4] by introducing a vast hierarchy of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-11-27 Steffen Borgwardt , Jesús A. De Loera , Elisabeth Finhold

The family of 2-level matroids, that is, matroids whose base polytope is 2-level, has been recently studied and characterized by means of combinatorial properties. 2-level matroids generalize series-parallel graphs, which have been already…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-10-15 Francesco Grande , Juanjo Rué

A sweep of a point configuration is any ordered partition induced by a linear functional. Posets of sweeps of planar point configurations were formalized and abstracted by Goodman and Pollack under the theory of allowable sequences of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-26 Arnau Padrol , Eva Philippe

Motivated by the study of polytopes formed as the convex hull of permutation matrices and alternating sign matrices, we define several new families of polytopes as convex hulls of sign matrices, which are certain {0,1,-1}-matrices in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-05-15 Sara Solhjem , Jessica Striker

Triangulations of a product of two simplices and, more generally, of root polytopes are closely related to Gelfand-Kapranov-Zelevinsky's theory of discriminants, to tropical geometry, tropical oriented matroids, and to generalized…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-03-19 Pavel Galashin , Gleb Nenashev , Alexander Postnikov

We introduce constrained polynomial zonotopes, a novel non-convex set representation that is closed under linear map, Minkowski sum, Cartesian product, convex hull, intersection, union, and quadratic as well as higher-order maps. We show…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-04-05 Niklas Kochdumper , Matthias Althoff