Polytopes, dualities, and Floer homology

Abstract

This article is an exposition of a body of existing results, together with an announcement of recent results. We discuss a theory of polytopes associated to bipartite graphs and trinities, developed by K\'alm\'an, Postnikov and others. This theory exhibits a variety of interesting duality and triality relations, and extends into knot theory, 3-manifold topology and Floer homology. In recent joint work with K\'alm\'an, we extend this story into contact topology and contact invariants in sutured Floer homology.