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The Hibi-Li Face-Number Conjecture

  • Ghislain Fourier
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Abstract

We prove the face-number conjecture of Hibi and Li: for every finite poset, the order polytope has no more faces of any given dimension than the chain polytope. More generally, the face numbers increase weakly along the admissible family of chain--order polytopes when one order coordinate is replaced by a chain coordinate. We also prove that, unless the order and chain polytopes are unimodularly equivalent, all face-number inequalities in dimensions 2,…,|P|−1 are strict.

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@misc{fourier2026hibili,
  title = {{The Hibi-Li Face-Number Conjecture}},
  author = {Ghislain Fourier},
  howpublished = {arXiv},
  year = {2026},
  month = oct,
  doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.23629},
  eprint = {2609.23629},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.23629},
  note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
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AB  - We prove the face-number conjecture of Hibi and Li: for every finite poset, the order polytope has no more faces of any given dimension than the chain polytope. More generally, the face numbers increase weakly along the admissible family of chain--order polytopes when one order coordinate is replaced by a chain coordinate. We also prove that, unless the order and chain polytopes are unimodularly equivalent, all face-number inequalities in dimensions 2,…,|P|−1 are strict.
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