The $\delta$-vectors of reflexive polytopes and of the dual polytopes

Abstract

Let $\delta(\mathcal{P})$ be the $\delta$-vector of a reflexive polytope $\mathcal{P} \subset \mathbb{R}^d$ of dimension $d$ and $\delta(\mathcal{P} ^\vee)$ the $\delta$-vector of the dual polytope $\mathcal{P}^\vee \subset \mathbb{R}^d$. In general, $\delta(\mathcal{P})=\delta(\mathcal{P}^\vee)$ does not hold. In this paper, we give a higher-dimensional construction of reflexive polytope whose $\delta$-vector equals the $\delta$-vector of the dual polytope. In particular, we consider the case that the reflexive polytope and the dual polytope are unimodularly equivalent.