Séminaire Lotharingien de Combinatoire, 93B.111 (2025), 12 pp.

Yuhan Jiang

The Ehrhart h*-Polynomials of Positroid Polytopes

Abstract. A positroid is a matroid realized by a matrix such that all maximal minors are non-negative. Positroid polytopes are matroid polytopes of positroids. In particular, they are lattice polytopes. The Ehrhart polynomial of a lattice polytope counts the number of integer points in the dilation of that polytope. The Ehrhart series is the generating function of the Ehrhart polynomial, which is a rational function with the numerator called the h*-polynomial. We compute the h*-polynomial of an arbitrary positroid polytope and an arbitrary half-open positroid polytope. Our result generalizes that of Katzman, Early, Kim, and Li for hypersimplices.


Received: November 15, 2024. Accepted: February 15, 2025. Final version: April 1, 2025.

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