The vertex-barycentre conjecture for permutahedra and associahedra

Let WW be a Coxeter group and let cWc\in W be a Coxeter element. Choose a real number a>0a>0 and set

a=sSavs\pmb a=\sum_{s\in S}av_s

to fix a realization of the permutahedron Perma(W){\mathsf{Perm}}^{\pmb a}(W). Let Assoca(W){\mathsf{Asso}}^{\pmb a}_c(W) denote the corresponding cc-associahedron, and let the vertex barycentre mean the average of the vertices of a polytope.

Vertex-barycentre conjecture. The vertex barycentres of Perma(W){\mathsf{Perm}}^{\pmb a}(W) and Assoca(W){\mathsf{Asso}}^{\pmb a}_c(W) coincide.

The conjecture is motivated by observations for Loday's realization and other type AA and BB associahedra. It was supported by computations in the listed finite types, but the source states that these observations had not been proved; no resolution is supplied here.

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Primary source

Christophe Hohlweg, Carsten Lange and Hugh Thomas, “Permutahedra and generalized associahedra”, arXiv:0709.4241 (2008).

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