De Loera–Haws–Köppe conjecture on Ehrhart positivity of matroid basis polytopes

Let MM be a matroid and let P(M)\mathscr{P}(M) denote its basis polytope. An integral polytope is Ehrhart positive if its Ehrhart polynomial has positive coefficients.

De Loera–Haws–Köppe conjecture. The basis polytope P(M)\mathscr{P}(M) of every matroid MM is Ehrhart positive.

This was posed in 2007 and is one of the main open problems concerning Ehrhart positivity. The paper studies counterexamples to broader positivity expectations, while this matroid-basis-polytope conjecture remains open in the supplied source.

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Primary source

Luis Ferroni, “Matroids are not Ehrhart positive”, arXiv:2105.04465 (2022).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2015–2021). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1505.07377.

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