English

Triangulations, order polytopes, and generalized snake posets

Combinatorics 2021-04-09 v2

Abstract

This work regards the order polytopes arising from the class of generalized snake posets and their posets of meet-irreducible elements. Among generalized snake posets of the same rank, we characterize those whose order polytopes have minimal and maximal volume. We give a combinatorial characterization of the circuits in these order polytopes and then conclude that every triangulation is unimodular. For a generalized snake word, we count the number of flips for the canonical triangulation of these order polytopes. We determine that the flip graph of the order polytope of the poset whose lattice of filters comes from a ladder is the Cayley graph of a symmetric group. Lastly, we introduce an operation on triangulations called twists and prove that twists preserve regular triangulations.

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@article{arxiv.2102.11306,
  title  = {Triangulations, order polytopes, and generalized snake posets},
  author = {Matias von Bell and Benjamin Braun and Derek Hanely and Khrystyna Serhiyenko and Julianne Vega and Andrés R. Vindas-Meléndez and Martha Yip},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.11306},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

39 pages, 26 figures, comments welcomed!

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