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| author | Bogart, Tristram Castillo, Federico de la Fuente, Damián Plaza, David |
| author_facet | Bogart, Tristram Castillo, Federico de la Fuente, Damián Plaza, David |
| contents | We study a graded vector space of polynomials associated to a square matrix, defined by a finite difference condition along the rows. We show this space coincides with one defined by directional derivatives, and prove it is finite-dimensional precisely when all principal minors are nonzero. In that case, its dimension in each degree equals a binomial coefficient, giving total dimension a power of two. For Cartan matrices of irreducible root systems, we construct an explicit basis of volume polynomials of faces of the associated permutohedra, yielding an elementary criterion, which we call geometricity, for expressing a polynomial as a linear combination of these volume polynomials. |
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| spellingShingle | A differential characterization of volume polynomials of permutohedra Bogart, Tristram Castillo, Federico de la Fuente, Damián Plaza, David Combinatorics 52B20, 20F55, 52A39 We study a graded vector space of polynomials associated to a square matrix, defined by a finite difference condition along the rows. We show this space coincides with one defined by directional derivatives, and prove it is finite-dimensional precisely when all principal minors are nonzero. In that case, its dimension in each degree equals a binomial coefficient, giving total dimension a power of two. For Cartan matrices of irreducible root systems, we construct an explicit basis of volume polynomials of faces of the associated permutohedra, yielding an elementary criterion, which we call geometricity, for expressing a polynomial as a linear combination of these volume polynomials. |
| title | A differential characterization of volume polynomials of permutohedra |
| topic | Combinatorics 52B20, 20F55, 52A39 |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.01071 |