Flag statistics from the Ehrhart \(h^\ast\)-polynomial of multi-hypersimplices (Q276203)

Summary: It is known that the normalized volume of standard hypersimplices (defined as some slices of the unit hypercube) are the Eulerian numbers. More generally, a recent conjecture of Stanley relates the Ehrhart series of hypersimplices with descents and excedences in permutations. This conjecture was proved by \textit{N. Li} [Discrete Comput. Geom. 48, No. 4, 847--878 (2012; Zbl 1263.52007)], who also gave a generalization to colored permutations. In this article, we give another generalization to colored permutations, using the flag statistics introduced by \textit{D. Foata} and \textit{G.-N. Han} [Adv. Appl. Math. 46, No. 1--4, 296--311 (2011; Zbl 1227.05038)]. We obtain in particular a new proof of Stanley's conjecture, and some combinatorial identities relating pairs of Eulerian statistics on colored permutations.