Séminaire Lotharingien de Combinatoire, 91B.21 (2024), 12 pp.

Jonah Berggren and Khrystyna Serhiyenko

Wilting Theory of Flow Polytopes

Abstract. Many important polytopes and their canonical triangulations appear as DKK triangulations of a framed directed acyclic graph (DAG) Γ. These triangulations are combinatorially modelled by cliques of routes on the framed DAG. When Γ is amply framed, the dual graph of its DKK triangulation, or DKK graph, has a lattice structure called the DKK lattice. We study the clique complex of routes which avoid an arbitrary set of "wilted" edges. This leads to various decompositions of the DKK lattice into intervals, generalizing decompositions of the Tamari lattice into ν-Tamari intervals. We further classify the framed DAGs whose DKK graphs may be understood as an interval in the DKK lattice of an amply framed DAG. We realize ν-Tamari lattices and the s-weak order as DKK lattices of such "rooted" DAGs and we extend results about shellability and h*-polynomials from the amply framed case to the rooted case.


Received: November 15, 2023. Accepted: February 15, 2024. Final version: April 1, 2024.

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