The volume formula for interval-vector polytopes

Let nn and ii be parameters for the interval-vector polytope Pn(I1,ni)\mathcal{P}_n(\mathcal{I}_{1,n-i}), where I1,ni\mathcal{I}_{1,n-i} denotes the corresponding family of intervals and vol\operatorname{vol} denotes volume. Volume conjecture.

vol(Pn(I1,ni))=2i(n(i+1)).\operatorname{vol}(\mathcal{P}_n(\mathcal{I}_{1,n-i}))=2^{i}(n-(i+1)).

This formula was observed from computations of ff-vectors generated with polymake; the supplied text gives no proof or resolution, so the conjecture remains open.

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Matthias Beck, Jessica De Silva, Gabriel Dorfsman-Hopkins, Joseph Pruitt and Amanda Ruiz, “The combinatorics of interval-vector polytopes”, arXiv:1211.2039 (2013).

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