The Newton non-degenerate homaloidal hypersurface conjecture

Let ff be a Newton non-degenerate homogeneous polynomial of degree d3d\geq 3 defining a homaloidal hypersurface. Let D0,,DnD_0,\dots,D_n be the polytopes associated with ff in Proposition 4.9: if E0d,,EndE_0^d,\dots,E_n^d are the facets of CdC_d and

Di=Conv((PΔ)Eid)Cd,D_i=\operatorname{Conv}\bigl((\mathbf P\ast\mathbf\Delta^\circ)\setminus E_i^d\bigr)\subset C_d,

then these are the polytopes whose mixed volume gives the polar degree. Homaloidal hypersurface conjecture. There is a renumbering of D0,,DnD_0,\dots,D_n such that, for every 0in0\leq i\leq n, the quotient

Di/(D0++Di1)D_i/(D_0+\dots+D_{i-1})

is a segment of lattice length 11. This gives a proposed combinatorial characterization of Newton non-degenerate homaloidal hypersurfaces; the authors verify it for the examples cited from Huh and report no counterexamples, but the general assertion remains open.

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Fedor Selyanin, “Newton numbers, vanishing polytopes and algebraic degrees”, arXiv:2507.03661 (2025).

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