2025/05/24 by Johannes Hofscheier, Hofscheier, Johannes, Vadym Kurylenko +3
Computer Science · Engineering · Mathematics · #Computational Geometry and Mesh Generation #graph theory and CDMA systems #Advanced Combinatorial Mathematics
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2505.18896
Lattice polytopes are called IDP polytopes if they have the integer decomposition property, i.e., any lattice point in a kth dilation is a sum of k lattice points in the polytope. It is a long-standing conjecture whether the numerator of the Ehrhart series of an IDP polytope, called the h^*-polynomial, has a unimodal coefficient vector. In this preliminary report on research in progress we present examples showing that h^*-vectors of IDP polytopes do not have to be log-concave. This answers a question of Luis Ferroni and Akihiro Higashitani. As this is an ongoing project, this paper will be updated with more details and examples in the near future.