Stanley's conjecture on unimodality of IDP polytopes
Let be a lattice polytope with the integer decomposition property (IDP), meaning that every lattice point in is a sum of lattice points in . Let be its -polynomial, and call its coefficient vector unimodal if it weakly increases and then weakly decreases. Stanley's conjecture. If is an IDP lattice polytope, then its -vector is unimodal. This is a central unresolved question about coefficient inequalities for Ehrhart polynomials; the paper discusses counterexamples to several related variants, while the Gorenstein IDP case is known.
References
Primary source
Luis Ferroni and Akihiro Higashitani, “Examples and counterexamples in Ehrhart theory”, arXiv:2307.10852 (2024).
Additional references
5 papers in this index state this conjecture (2007–2023). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2104.15080, arXiv:2103.17156, arXiv:1505.07377, arXiv:math/0703901.
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