{ "id": "1901.07443", "version": "v1", "published": "2019-01-22T16:11:18.000Z", "updated": "2019-01-22T16:11:18.000Z", "title": "The $h^*$-polynomial of the order polytope of the zig-zag poset", "authors": [ "Jane Ivy Coons", "Seth Sullivant" ], "comment": "16 pages, 2 figures", "categories": [ "math.CO", "math.AC" ], "abstract": "We describe a family of shellings for the canonical triangulation of the order polytope of the zig-zag poset. This gives a combinatorial interpretation for the coefficients in the numerator of the generating functions for OEIS A050446 in terms of the swap statistic on alternating permutations.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2019-01-22T16:11:18.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "order polytope", "zig-zag poset", "polynomial", "combinatorial interpretation", "oeis a050446" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 16, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }