Realizing the s-Permutahedron via Flow Polytopes

Rafael S. González D’León, Alejandro H. Morales, Eva Philippe, Daniel Tamayo Jiménez, Martha Yip

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Abstract

In 2019, Ceballos and Pons introduced the s-weak order on s-decreasing trees, for any weak composition s. They proved its lattice structure and conjectured that it could be realized as the 1-skeleton of a polyhedral subdivision of a zonotope of dimension n − 1. We answer their conjecture in the case where s is a (strict) composition by providing three geometric realizations of the s-permutahedron. The first one is the dual graph of a triangulation of a flow polytope of high dimension. The second, obtained using the Cayley trick, is the dual graph of a fine mixed subdivision of a sum of hypercubes that has the conjectured dimension. The third, obtained using tropical geometry, is the 1-skeleton of a polyhedral complex for which we can provide explicit coordinates of the vertices and whose support is a permutahedron as conjectured.

Original languageEnglish
Article number#60
JournalSeminaire Lotharingien de Combinatoire
Issue number91
StatePublished - 2024

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Keywords

  • Cayley trick
  • flow polytope
  • geometric realization
  • polyhedral subdivision
  • s-decreasing tree
  • s-weak order
  • tropical hypersurface

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics

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