English

Realizing the $s$-permutahedron via flow polytopes

Combinatorics 2023-07-10 v1

Abstract

Ceballos and Pons introduced the ss-weak order on ss-decreasing trees, for any weak composition ss. They proved that it has a lattice structure and further conjectured that it can be realized as the 11-skeleton of a polyhedral subdivision of a polytope. We answer their conjecture in the case where ss is a strict composition by providing three geometric realizations of the ss-permutahedron. The first one is the dual graph of a triangulation of a flow polytope of high dimension. The second one, obtained using the Cayley trick, is the dual graph of a fine mixed subdivision of a sum of hypercubes that has the conjectured dimension. The third one, obtained using tropical geometry, is the 11-skeleton of a polyhedral complex for which we can provide explicit coordinates of the vertices and whose support is a permutahedron as conjectured.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2307.03474,
  title  = {Realizing the $s$-permutahedron via flow polytopes},
  author = {Rafael S. González D'León and Alejandro H. Morales and Eva Philippe and Daniel Tamayo Jiménez and Martha Yip},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.03474},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

39 pages, 14 figures

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