Order and chain polytopes of maximal ranked posets

Abstract

The order and chain polytopes, introduced by Richard P. Stanley, form a pair of Ehrhart equivalent polytopes associated to a given finite poset. A conjecture by Takayuki Hibi and Nan Li states that the $f$-vector of the chain polytope dominates the $f$-vector of the order polytope. In this paper we prove a stronger form of that conjecture for a special class of posets. More precisely, we show that the $f$-vectors increase monotonically over an admissible family of chain-order polytopes for such posets.