Conjectured face numbers of the Tutte polytopes

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Let nn be a positive integer, let 0<q<10<q<1 and t>0t>0, and let Tn(q,t){{\text{\hskip.03cm\bf{T}}}}_n(q,t) denote the Tutte polytope defined in the source. Conjectured face numbers of the Tutte polytopes. For 0<q<10<q<1 and t>0t>0, the number of edges of Tn(q,t){{\text{\hskip.03cm\bf{T}}}}_n(q,t) is

3(n1)2n2+1,3(n-1)2^{n-2}+1,

and the number of 22-faces is

2n5(9n229n+38)1.2^{n-5}\bigl(9n^2-29n+38\bigr)-1.

These formulas are based on computations of the ff-vectors for n=1,,10n=1,\ldots,10 and are presented as a conjecture; no proof or resolution is supplied in the source.

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Primary source

Matjaz Konvalinka and Igor Pak, “Triangulations of Cayley and Tutte polytopes”, arXiv:1108.1905 (2011).

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