Hamiltonicity conjecture for the face lattice of every polytope
Hamiltonicity conjecture for the face lattice of every polytope
Let be a polytope of dimension . Its face lattice consists of all faces of , ordered by inclusion, and is the cover graph of this lattice: its vertices are the faces of , with two faces adjacent when one is a subface of the other and their dimensions differ by .
Hamiltonicity conjecture. The graph has a Hamiltonian cycle.
Such a cycle would give a Gray code listing of all faces of , in which consecutive faces differ by a single cover relation in the face lattice. The source presents this as a brave conjecture and notes that the question appears to be novel; the available context gives no resolution.
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Primary source
Nastaran Behrooznia, Sofia Brenner, Arturo Merino, Torsten Mütze, Christian Rieck and Francesco Verciani, “Listing faces of polytopes”, arXiv:2412.02584 (2026).
Additional references
5 papers in this index state this conjecture (2003–2024). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2205.15228, arXiv:1611.06401, arXiv:1206.4846, arXiv:math/0303084.
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