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• Associahedra K, Y [claymath] (J.L. Loday)
• Stasheff polytopes
• Type A associahedra [arxiv] (Fomin, Reading)
• Secondary polytope of the set of vertices of a polygon [maa review] (Gelfand, Kapranov, Zelevinsky)
• Newton polytope of the discriminant polynomial of the (integer coordinate) vertices of a polygon.
• Fiber polytope of the simplex over a polygon. [jstor] (Billera, Sturmfels)
• Path graph associahedra [arxiv] (Carr, Devadoss)
• Path graph cubeahedra [arxiv] (Devadoss, Heath, Vipismakul)
• Zig-zag poset associahedra [arxiv] (Devadoss et.al.)
• Quotientopes P , whose upper ideal of shards contains the basic shards and all upper shards. [Pilaud, Santos]
• 2-associahedra W_n for the sequence(n). [arxiv](N. Bottman)
• (1,n) biassociahedra KK(n,1), KK(1,n) [arxiv] (Saneblidze, Umble)
• alt. notation B^n_1, B^1_n [arxiv] (Markl)
• Constrainahedra C(1,n) = C(n,1), [ arxiv ] ( Bottman, Poliakova)
   or Constr(0,n) = Constr(n,0), [ arxiv ] ( Chapoton, Pilaud)
• Dimensions:
0, 1, 2, 3, ... n
• Number of Vertices in nth polytope:
1, 2, 5, 14, 42, ... Catalan numbers [ OEIS A000108]
• Number of Facets:
0, 2, 5, 9, 14, ... Triangular numbers minus one [ OEIS A000096 ]
• f-vectors:
1, 2, 1, 5, 5, 1, 14, 21, 9, 1, 42, 84, 56, 14, 1, ... [ OEIS A033282]
• h-vectors:
1, 3, 1, 1, 6, 6, 1, 1, 10, 20, 10, 1, 1, 15, 50, 50, 15, 1... [ OEIS A001263]
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