Realizations of the associahedron and cyclohedron

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Abstract: We describe many different realizations with integer coordinates for the associahedron (i.e. the Stasheff polytope) and for the cyclohedron (i.e. the Bott-Taubes polytope) and compare them to the permutahedron of type A_n and B_n respectively. The coordinates are obtained by an algorithm which uses an oriented Coxeter graph of type A_n or B_n respectively as only input and which specialises to a procedure presented by J.-L. Loday for a certain orientation of A_n. The described realizations have cambrian fans of type A and B as normal fans. This settles a conjecture of N. Reading for cambrian fans of these types.


The associahedron first arose purely as the graph corresponding to the bistellar operations on triangulations of a convex polygon which only use the vertices of the polygon. Later, it was shown how to realize this graph as the edge-graph of a suitable simple convex polytope. Indeed, this polytope can be taken to be the secondary polytope (a special case of a fibre polytope) of the projection of an appropriate simplex on the polygon. In a similar way, the cyclohedron corresponds to centrally symmetric triangulations of a centrally symmetric polygon. There is also a connexion with the permutahedra arising from the Coxeter groups of types \(A\) and \(B\), respectively. In this paper, the authors discuss realizations of these polytopes with integer coordinates for their vertices, comparing them with these permutahedra; these coordinates are obtained through an algorithm which uses the corresponding oriented Coxeter graphs of types \(A\) and \(B\) as the only input data.




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