Acyclotopes and Tocyclotopes

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Autori principali: Bach, Eleonore, Beck, Matthias, Rehberg, Sophie
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author Bach, Eleonore
Beck, Matthias
Rehberg, Sophie
author_facet Bach, Eleonore
Beck, Matthias
Rehberg, Sophie
contents There is a well-established dictionary between zonotopes, hyperplane arrangements, and their (oriented) matroids. Arguably one of the most famous examples is the class of graphical zonotopes, also called acyclotopes, which encode subzonotopes of the type-A root polytope, the permutahedron. Stanley (1991) gave a general interpretation of the coefficients of the Ehrhart polynomial (integer-point counting function for a polytope) of a zonotope via linearly independent subsets of its generators. Applying this to the graphical case shows that Ehrhart coefficients count induced forests of the graph of fixed sizes. Our first goal is to extend and popularize this story to other root systems, which on the combinatorial side is encoded by signed graphs analogously to the work by Greene and Zaslavsky (1983). We compute the Ehrhart polynomial of the acyclotope in the signed case, and we give a matroid-dual construction, giving rise to tocyclotopes, and compute their Ehrhart polynomials. Applying the same duality construction to a general integral matrix gives rise to a lattice Gale zonotope, whose face structure was studies by McMullen (1971) and whose duality nature is a special instance of D'Adderio--Moci's arithmetic matroids. We describe its Ehrhart polynomials in terms of the given matrix.
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spellingShingle Acyclotopes and Tocyclotopes
Bach, Eleonore
Beck, Matthias
Rehberg, Sophie
Combinatorics
52B20, 05C22, 52B35, 52C07, 52C40
There is a well-established dictionary between zonotopes, hyperplane arrangements, and their (oriented) matroids. Arguably one of the most famous examples is the class of graphical zonotopes, also called acyclotopes, which encode subzonotopes of the type-A root polytope, the permutahedron. Stanley (1991) gave a general interpretation of the coefficients of the Ehrhart polynomial (integer-point counting function for a polytope) of a zonotope via linearly independent subsets of its generators. Applying this to the graphical case shows that Ehrhart coefficients count induced forests of the graph of fixed sizes. Our first goal is to extend and popularize this story to other root systems, which on the combinatorial side is encoded by signed graphs analogously to the work by Greene and Zaslavsky (1983). We compute the Ehrhart polynomial of the acyclotope in the signed case, and we give a matroid-dual construction, giving rise to tocyclotopes, and compute their Ehrhart polynomials. Applying the same duality construction to a general integral matrix gives rise to a lattice Gale zonotope, whose face structure was studies by McMullen (1971) and whose duality nature is a special instance of D'Adderio--Moci's arithmetic matroids. We describe its Ehrhart polynomials in terms of the given matrix.
title Acyclotopes and Tocyclotopes
topic Combinatorics
52B20, 05C22, 52B35, 52C07, 52C40
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.15227