Dickenstein–Nill codegree conjecture for lattice polytopes

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Let PP be an nn-dimensional lattice polytope, and let cd⁡(P)\operatorname{cd}(P) denote its codegree. A Cayley sum is a polytope obtained by assembling polytopes along the vertices of a simplex; a nontrivial Cayley structure has more than one summand.

Dickenstein–Nill conjecture. If

cd⁡(P)>n+22,\operatorname{cd}(P)>\frac{n+2}{2},

then PP decomposes as a Cayley sum of lattice polytopes of dimension at most

2(n+1−cd⁡(P)).2\bigl(n+1-\operatorname{cd}(P)\bigr).

This is the integral-toric counterpart of the Beltrametti–Sommese fibration conjecture. The source states that it remains open in its original generality, although it is proved for Gorenstein polytopes and under additional hypotheses.

References

Primary source

Sandra Di Rocco, Christian Haase, Benjamin Nill and Andreas Paffenholz, “Polyhedral adjunction theory”, arXiv:1105.2415 (2012).

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