Abstract. We introduce bubbling diagrams and show that they compute the support of the Grothendieck polynomial of any vexillary permutation. Using these diagrams, we show that the support of the top homogeneous component of such a Grothendieck polynomial coincides with the support of the dual character of an explicit flagged Weyl module. We also show that the homogenized Grothendieck polynomial of a vexillary permutation has M-convex support.

For every directed acyclic graph $G$, we characterize the faces of the root polytope $\tilde Q_G = \textup{conv}\{0, e_i - e_j : (i,j) \in E(G)\}$ combinatorially. Our results specialize to state of the art results in a straightforward way.