Framing Lattices and Flow Polytopes

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Main Authors: von Bell, Matias, Ceballos, Cesar
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Ceballos, Cesar
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Ceballos, Cesar
contents Flow polytopes of acyclic oriented graphs arise naturally in combinatorial optimization, and the study of their volumes and triangulations has revealed intriguing connections across combinatorics, geometry, algebra, and representation theory. In this work, we introduce the framing lattice associated with a framed graph, whose Hasse diagram is dual to a framed triangulation of the corresponding flow polytope. Framing lattices are remarkable in that they provide a unifying framework encompassing many classical and well-studied lattice structures, including the Boolean lattice, the Tamari lattice, and the weak order on permutations. They further subsume a broad array of examples such as all type-A Cambrian lattices, the Grassmann and grid-Tamari lattices, the alt-$ν$-Tamari and cross-Tamari lattices, the permutree lattices, and the $τ$-tilting posets of certain gentle algebras. We show, among several foundational structural properties, that the framing lattice is a semidistributive, congruence uniform, and polygonal lattice, with its polygons consisting of squares, pentagons, and hexagons. We study its connections to noncrossing partitions via Reading's core label orders, simple representations of its join and meet irreducible elements, and several of its lattice congruences and quotients induced by a graph operation called an M-move.
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spellingShingle Framing Lattices and Flow Polytopes
von Bell, Matias
Ceballos, Cesar
Combinatorics
06B99 (primary), 52B12, 05E45 (secondary)
Flow polytopes of acyclic oriented graphs arise naturally in combinatorial optimization, and the study of their volumes and triangulations has revealed intriguing connections across combinatorics, geometry, algebra, and representation theory. In this work, we introduce the framing lattice associated with a framed graph, whose Hasse diagram is dual to a framed triangulation of the corresponding flow polytope. Framing lattices are remarkable in that they provide a unifying framework encompassing many classical and well-studied lattice structures, including the Boolean lattice, the Tamari lattice, and the weak order on permutations. They further subsume a broad array of examples such as all type-A Cambrian lattices, the Grassmann and grid-Tamari lattices, the alt-$ν$-Tamari and cross-Tamari lattices, the permutree lattices, and the $τ$-tilting posets of certain gentle algebras. We show, among several foundational structural properties, that the framing lattice is a semidistributive, congruence uniform, and polygonal lattice, with its polygons consisting of squares, pentagons, and hexagons. We study its connections to noncrossing partitions via Reading's core label orders, simple representations of its join and meet irreducible elements, and several of its lattice congruences and quotients induced by a graph operation called an M-move.
title Framing Lattices and Flow Polytopes
topic Combinatorics
06B99 (primary), 52B12, 05E45 (secondary)
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.20575