Enumeration and constructions of vertices of the polytope of polystochastic matrices

Abstract

A multidimensional nonnegative matrix is called polystochastic if the sum of entries in each of its lines equals $1$. The set of all polystochastic matrices of order $n$ and dimension $d$ is a convex polytope $Ω_n^d$ known as the Birkhoff polytope. In this paper, we identify all vertices of the polytopes $Ω_4^3$ and $Ω_3^4$ correcting the results of Ke, Li, and Xiao (2016). Additionally, we describe constructions vertices of $Ω_n^d$ using multidimensional matrix products and find symmetric vertices of $Ω_3^d$ for all $d \geq 4$ with large support sizes.