Symmetrizing polytopes and posets
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 -symmetrization of an arbitrary polytope for any reflection group . 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 subdivides the fundamental chamber associated to the reflection group . One important application of our results is providing a way to approach the realization problem of a -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 -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