Lattice polytopes from schur and symmetric grothendieck polynomials

Department

Mathematics

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-2021

Abstract

Given a family of lattice polytopes, two common questions in Ehrhart Theory are determining when a polytope has the integer decomposition property and determining when a polytope is reflexive. While these properties are of independent interest, the confluence of these properties is a source of active investigation due to conjectures regarding the unimodality of the h∗-polynomial. In this paper, we consider the Newton polytopes arising from two families of polynomials in algebraic combinatorics: Schur polynomials and inflated symmetric Grothendieck polynomi-als. In both cases, we prove that these polytopes have the integer decomposition property by using the fact that both families of polynomials have saturated Newton polytope. Furthermore, in both cases, we provide a complete characterization of when these polytopes are reflexive. We conclude with some explicit formulas and unimodality implications of the h∗-vector in the case of Schur polynomials.

Journal Title

Electronic Journal of Combinatorics

Volume

28

Issue

2

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

10.37236/9621

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