English

Symmetrizing polytopes and posets

Combinatorics 2024-08-07 v1

Abstract

Motivated by the authors' work on permuto-associahedra, which can be considered as a symmetrization of the associahedron using the symmetric group, we introduce and study the G\mathfrak{G}-symmetrization of an arbitrary polytope PP for any reflection group G\mathfrak{G}. We show that the combinatorics, and moreover, the normal fan of such a symmetrization can be recovered from its refined fundamental fan, a decorated poset describing how the normal fan of PP subdivides the fundamental chamber associated to the reflection group G\mathfrak{G}. One important application of our results is providing a way to approach the realization problem of a G\mathfrak{G}-symmetric poset F, that is, the problem of constructing a polytope whose face poset is F. Instead of working with the original poset F, we look at its dual poset T (which is G\mathfrak{G}-symmetric as well) and focus on a generating subposet Z of T, and reduce the problem to realizing Z as a refined fundamental fan.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2408.02771,
  title  = {Symmetrizing polytopes and posets},
  author = {Federico Castillo and Fu Liu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.02771},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

33 pages, 12 figures, comments are welcome

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