Flow polytopes and the graph of reflexive polytopes

DOI10.1016/J.DISC.2009.03.001MaRDI QIDQ1044972zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Klaus Altmann, Benjamin Nill, Sabine Schwentner, Izolda Wiercinska

Publication date 15 December 2009

Published in Discrete Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.disc.2009.03.001

zbMATH Keywords

quiversreflexive polytopestoric geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Toric varieties, Newton polyhedra, Okounkov bodies (14M25) Lattice polytopes in convex geometry (including relations with commutative algebra and algebraic geometry) (52B20)

Review text

Motivated by the problem of constructing reflexive polytopes the authors introduce a graph whose set of vertices is the set of reflexive \(d\)-polytopes in \(d\)-space and whose edges can be found computationally without much difficulty. For dimensions 2 and 3, this graph is explicitly computed, and its connected components are determined. The results of the computations are reported at the end of the paper. Particular attention is paid to the reflexive polytopes among the ``flow polytopes with the hope that these easily computable polytopes would be scattered among the connected components of the graph, thereby yielding a way to find all or most of the reflexive polytopes. A method is devised for constructing reflexive flow polytopes. As it happens, in dimension 2, in which the graph has a connected component of 15 vertices and one additional isolated vertex, the isolated vertex is not among the five flow polytopes; and in dimension 3, the 39 flow polytopes are restricted to two of the 1056 connected components.

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• Dwork congruences and reflexive polytopes

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Uses Software

• PALP
• polymake

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