The multiples-of-factorial conjecture for Ehrhart-equivalent integral polytopes

Let nZ>3n\in\mathbb{Z}_{>3}, and let P,QRnP,Q\subset\mathbb{R}^n be arbitrary Ehrhart-equivalent integral nn-polytopes. For a positive integer jj, the notation jPjP denotes the dilation of PP by jj, and GLn(Z)\operatorname{GL}_n(\mathbb{Z})-equidecomposability is by affine-unimodular transformations.

The multiples-of-factorial conjecture. For any nZ>3n\in\mathbb{Z}_{>3}, if P,QRnP,Q\subset\mathbb{R}^n are two arbitrary Ehrhart-equivalent integral nn-polytopes, then

(j(n1)!)P and (j(n1)!)Q(j(n-1)!)P\text{ and }(j(n-1)!)Q

are GLn(Z)\operatorname{GL}_n(\mathbb{Z})-equidecomposable for all jZ1j\in\mathbb{Z}_{\ge 1}.

This conjecture proposes an infinite class of dilation factors beyond the single factor (n1)!(n-1)!. The paper notes that infinitely many dilation factors exist in general, while for n=1n=1 and n=2n=2 every positive integer works; the stated conjecture concerns dimensions greater than three.

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Fiona Abney-McPeek, Sanket Biswas, Senjuti Dutta, Yongyuan Huang, Deyuan Li and Nancy Xu, “Ehrhart-Equivalence, Equidecomposability, and Unimodular Equivalence of Integral Polytopes”, arXiv:2101.08771 (2021).

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