Reflexivity of Newton-Okounkov bodies of partial flag varieties

Abstract

Assume that the valuation semigroup $\Gamma (\lambda )$ of an arbitrary partial flag variety corresponding to the line bundle ${\mathcal{L}}_{\lambda }$ constructed via a full-rank valuation is finitely generated and saturated. We use Ehrhart theory to prove that the associated Newton-Okounkov body, which happens to be a rational, convex polytope, contains exactly one lattice point in its interior if and only if ${\mathcal{L}}_{\lambda }$ is the anticanonical line bundle. Furthermore we use this unique lattice point to construct the dual polytope of the Newton-Okounkov body and prove that this dual is a lattice polytope using a result by Hibi. This leads to an unexpected, necessary and sufficient condition for the Newton-Okounkov body to be reflexive.

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