Stanley's conjecture on unimodality of IDP polytopes

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Let PP be a lattice polytope with the integer decomposition property (IDP), meaning that every lattice point in mPmP is a sum of mm lattice points in PP. Let hP∗(x)h^*_P(x) be its h∗h^*-polynomial, and call its coefficient vector unimodal if it weakly increases and then weakly decreases. Stanley's conjecture. If PP is an IDP lattice polytope, then its h∗h^*-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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