The Plücker-coordinate volume relation for polytopes

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Let G(nd,n)G(n-d,n) denote the Grassmannian of (nd)(n-d)-dimensional subspaces of an nn-dimensional space, and let p\bm{p} be a Plücker-coordinate vector in nG(nd,n)\bigcup\limits_n G(n-d,n). Let VV be the volume of the corresponding polytope. Plücker-coordinate volume conjecture. There exists a map

f:nG(nd,n)R,pxf:\bigcup\limits_n G(n-d,n)\rightarrow\mathbb{R},\qquad \bm{p}\mapsto x

such that

Vx+1,V\sim |x|+1,

where 11 indicates the smallest normalized volume among the polytopes. This conjecture proposes a simple one-dimensional relation between Plücker-coordinate data and polytope volume, motivated by the observed one-component multidimensional-scaling projections; the supplied text gives no evidence that the relation has been proved or disproved.

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Jiakang Bao, Yang-Hui He, Edward Hirst, Johannes Hofscheier, Alexander Kasprzyk and Suvajit Majumder, “Polytopes and Machine Learning”, arXiv:2109.09602 (2021).

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