English

Restricted Birkhoff polytopes and Ehrhart period collapse

Combinatorics 2023-12-21 v2

Abstract

We show that the polytopes obtained from the Birkhoff polytope by imposing additional inequalities restricting the "longest increasing subsequence" have Ehrhart quasi-polynomials which are honest polynomials, even though they are just rational polytopes in general. We do this by defining a continuous, piecewise-linear bijection to a certain Gelfand-Tsetlin polytope. This bijection is not an integral equivalence but it respects lattice points in the appropriate way to imply that the two polytopes have the same Ehrhart (quasi-)polynomials. In fact, the bijection is essentially the Robinson-Schensted-Knuth correspondence.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2206.02276,
  title  = {Restricted Birkhoff polytopes and Ehrhart period collapse},
  author = {Per Alexandersson and Sam Hopkins and Gjergji Zaimi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.02276},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

16 pages; v2: forthcoming, Discrete & Computational Geometry

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