Bivariate Ehrhart reciprocity conjecture for preorder polytopes

Let τ\tau be a preorder of size nn, and let Eτ(u,v)\mathbb E_\tau(u,v) be the double Ehrhart polynomial counting lattice points of the two-parameter polytope Qτ(r,s)\mathcal Q_\tau(r,s). Bivariate Ehrhart reciprocity conjecture.

Eτ(u,v)=(1)nEτ(u1,v1)\mathbb E_\tau(-u,-v)=(-1)^n\mathbb E_\tau(u-1,v-1)

for every preorder τ\tau of size nn. The identity has been verified computationally for all preorders of size at most 55; the general case remains open.

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Frédéric Chapoton and Christos A. Athanasiadis, “Polytopes and posets associated to preorders”, arXiv:2605.26916 (2026).

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